Numbers 25:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 31:1-3 : 1 Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people. 3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
  • Rev 18:6 : 6 Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.

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  • Num 25:15-16
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    15 And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

    16 Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 25:18
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    18 For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.

  • Num 31:1-3
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    79%

    1 Then the Lord said to Moses,

    2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

    3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

  • Num 31:7-10
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    78%

    7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

    8 They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

    9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

    10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

  • Ps 83:9
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    9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • Judg 6:1-5
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    74%

    1 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.

    2 And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

    3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

    4 And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

    5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

  • Num 31:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

    16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

    17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

  • Deut 20:13
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    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
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    24 But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;

  • Deut 25:17-18
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    73%

    17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

    18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

  • Num 25:10
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    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Judg 6:16
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    16 Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

  • Exod 17:8
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    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

  • Num 25:5
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    5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

  • Lam 3:66
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    66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

  • Ps 135:10
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    10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;

  • Num 15:17
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    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 14:26
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    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Deut 2:17
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    17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Deut 20:17
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    17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

  • Judg 10:8
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    8 And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Deut 13:15
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    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
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    18 And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

  • Exod 17:13
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    13 And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.

  • Josh 11:20
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    20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • Judg 6:7
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    7 And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

  • Deut 31:5
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    5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

  • Num 31:25
    70%

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 6:19
    70%

    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

  • Exod 32:27
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    27 And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.

  • Ps 78:31
    70%

    31 The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19 And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.