Numbers 31:16
Look, these women caused the people of Israel, through Balaam's advice, to commit sin against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, when the plague spread among Yahweh's community.
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15Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?
17Now then, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1Israel stayed in Shittim, and the men began to prostitute themselves with women of Moab,
Numbers 25:18for they treated you like enemies with their deceitfulness. They led you into evil in the case of Peor and in the case of their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a leader in Midian, who was killed on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”
Joshua 22:17Was our sin at Peor not enough for us? Yet we have not even now cleansed ourselves from it. For that sin there came a plague on the assembly of Yahweh.
Ecclesiastes 7:26I found that more bitter than death is any woman 2 whose heart is full of snares and nets, 2 and whose hands are chains. 1 Whoever pleases God will escape from her, 2 but the sinner will be taken by her.
Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold tightly to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and be sexually immoral.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 31:14-25
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the… Read the whole commentary →