Numbers 25:9
And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
In Context
10Then the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 32:35So the Lord plagued the people, because they caused Aaron to make ye calfe which he made.
Numbers 16:49So they died of this plague fourtene thousande and seuen hundreth, beside them that dyed in the conspiracie of Korah.
Numbers 26:1And so after the plague, the Lord spake vnto Moses, and to Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes haue seene what the Lord did because of Baal-Peor, for al the men that folowed Baal-Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed euery one from among you.
1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.
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 →