Numbers 25:9
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
In Context
10Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
Cross References
Exodus 32:35Yahweh sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
Numbers 16:49Those who died by the plague were 14,700 in number, besides those who had died in the matter of Korah.
Numbers 26:1It came about after the plague that Yahweh spoke to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He said,
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed the Baal of Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.
1 Corinthians 10:8Let us not commit sexual immorality, as many of them did. In one day, twenty-three thousand people died because of it.
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 →