Numbers 25:9

But they who had died by the pestilence were twenty and four thousand.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And he went in after the man, the son of Israel, into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man, the son of Israel, and the woman, through her belly; and the pestilence was stayed from the children of Israel.

10And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And the Lord smote the people because they had worshipped (or served) the calf which Aharon had made.

Numbers 26:1that the Lord spake to Mosheh and to Elazar bar Aharon the priest, saying:

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the Lord hath done with the worshippers of Baala Peor; for all the men who went after Baala Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed from among you.

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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