Numbers 25:9

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

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

10And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

Numbers 16:49Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

Numbers 26:1And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and 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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