Numbers 25:18
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
Cross References
Genesis 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
Exodus 32:21“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
Numbers 31:15“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.
2 Corinthians 11:3I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who have truly escaped from others who live in error.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:17-18
16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. God had punished the Israelites for their sin with a plague; as a Father he corrected his own children with a rod. But we read not that any of the Midianites died of the plague; God took another course with… Read the whole commentary →