Numbers 25:9

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

10Then the LORD said to Moses,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.

Numbers 16:49But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

Numbers 26:1After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

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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