Numbers 25:9

And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

In Context

8Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel:

10And the Lord said to Moses:

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.

Numbers 16:49And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Numbers 26:1After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:7-16

The Zeal of Phinehas. ( b. c. 1452.) 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both… Read the whole commentary →

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