Numbers 25:4

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

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  • Deut 13:17 : 17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.
  • Deut 21:23 : 23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
  • 2 Sam 21:6 : 6 Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.
  • Num 25:11 : 11 Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.
  • Num 25:14-15 : 14 Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites. 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.
  • Num 25:18 : 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.
  • Exod 18:25 : 25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
  • 2 Sam 21:9 : 9 And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.
  • Esth 7:9-9 : 9 Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it. 10 So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
  • Ps 85:3-4 : 3 You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath. 4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.
  • Jonah 3:9 : 9 Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?
  • Josh 7:25-26 : 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire. 26 And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.
  • Josh 22:17 : 17 Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
  • Josh 23:2 : 2 Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:
  • Deut 13:6-9 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers; 7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other; 8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover; 9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;
  • Deut 13:15 : 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.

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  • 5So 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.

  • 3So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

  • 10And the Lord said to Moses,

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    13And the Lord said to Moses,

    14Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.

  • 23And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • 16Then the Lord said to Moses,

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    1Then the Lord said to Moses,

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

    3So 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.

  • 14And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

  • Num 16:44-45
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    44And the Lord said to Moses,

    45Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

  • Num 5:4-5
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    4So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

    5And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 15:35-37
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    35Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle.

    36So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

    37And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

  • 21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • 18That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.

  • 10And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

  • 5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.

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    11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

    12Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

  • 41But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • 10But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

  • 21Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

  • 36And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 20And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

  • 25And the Lord said to Moses,

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

  • 7The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • 5Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

  • 3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

  • 16It 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.

  • 4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

  • 15Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • 23And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 6And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.

  • 26Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on five trees, where they were till evening.

  • 11That same day Moses said to the people,

  • 7And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • 27And 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.

  • 9But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • 6Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

  • 1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 24And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

  • 4And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:

  • 29Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel: