Numbers 25:8
and went in after the Israelitish man into the + 25:8 Gr. furnace, κάμινον. Trom renders lupanar. Heb. הקכה. chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
9And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
Cross References
Numbers 17:13Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?
Numbers 25:11Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous + 25:11 Or, with Or, against them. Hebraism among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
2 Samuel 21:14And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulchre of Cis his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God listened to the prayers of the land.
1 Chronicles 21:22And David said to Orna, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from among the people.
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 →