Numbers 25:9

Then was it found that they who had died by the plague were four and twenty thousand.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8and went in after the man of Israel into the pleasure-tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, in her parts of shame,—so the plague was restrained from against the sons of Israel.

10Then spake Yahweh unto Moses saying:

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Yahweh plagued the people,—for what they had done with the calf, which Aaron made.

Numbers 16:49And so it was that they who died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,—besides them who died over the matter of Korah.

Numbers 26:1And it came to pass, after the plague, that Yahweh spake unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying:

Deuteronomy 4:3Yours are the eyes, that have seen what Yahweh did in Baal-peor, for every man who went after Baal-peor, did Yahweh thy God destroy out of thy midst;

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as, some of them, committed fornication, and there fell, in one day, three and twenty 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 →

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