Numbers 25:5

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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.

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  • Exod 18:21 : 21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
  • Exod 18:25-26 : 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. 26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
  • Exod 22:20 : 20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.
  • Exod 32:27-28 : 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. 28 And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.
  • Deut 13:6 : 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;
  • Deut 13:9 : 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.
  • Deut 17:3-5 : 3 By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; 4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel; 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.
  • 1 Kgs 18:40 : 40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

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  • Num 25:2-4
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    2 For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

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

    4 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.

  • Num 31:14-17
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    79%

    14 And 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.

    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.

  • Num 25:15-18
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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,

    17 Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

    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 25:6
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    6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Deut 4:3
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    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.

  • Num 25:8-10
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    8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

    9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:7-8
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    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.

  • Num 31:1-3
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    74%

    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.

  • Josh 13:22
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    22 And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

  • Exod 32:26-27
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    26 Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

    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.

  • Num 5:5
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    5 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 5:11
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    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 24:23
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    23 And 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.

  • Num 31:25
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    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Josh 22:17
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    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,

  • Num 15:35-37
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    35 Then 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.

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

    37 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Ps 106:28
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    28 And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

  • Num 16:41
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    41 But 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.

  • Exod 19:21
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    21 And 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.

  • Lev 20:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 24:13
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    13 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:19
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    19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

  • Deut 27:11
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    11 That same day Moses said to the people,

  • Num 16:36
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    36 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 31:16
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    16 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

  • Num 30:1
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    1 So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

  • Judg 21:5
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    5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.

  • Num 27:15
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    15 Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Num 14:5
    69%

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

  • Exod 35:1
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    1 And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.