Numbers 25:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Num 16:46-48 : 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting. 47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people. 48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.
  • Num 25:5 : 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.
  • 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.
  • 2 Sam 24:25 : 25 And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
  • Ps 106:29-31 : 29 So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them. 30 Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther. 31 And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.

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  • Num 25:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    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.

    7 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,

  • Num 25:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

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

    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

    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.

  • Ps 106:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29 So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

    30 Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.

  • Num 31:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    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 16:48-50
    3 verses
    75%

    48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.

    49 Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.

    50 Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.

  • Judg 20:28
    73%

    28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on; for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.

  • Num 25:14-18
    5 verses
    73%

    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.

    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.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    72%

    15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

  • Num 11:33
    71%

    33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

  • Josh 22:13
    70%

    13 And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,

  • Josh 22:17
    70%

    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 25:3
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 22:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.

    32 Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs went back from the land of Gilead, from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and came to the children of Israel in Canaan and gave them the news.

  • Num 26:1
    70%

    1 Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,

  • Exod 32:27
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 4:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

    11 And the ark of God was taken; and Hophni and Phinehas, the sons of Eli, were put to the sword.

  • 1 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

  • 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 Sam 24:25
    69%

    25 And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.

  • Deut 22:22
    69%

    22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    69%

    7 And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

  • Josh 22:20
    69%

    20 Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.

  • Judg 20:25
    69%

    25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • Num 14:37
    68%

    37 Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

  • Josh 13:22
    68%

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

  • Exod 4:24
    68%

    24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

  • Josh 8:26
    68%

    26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

  • Num 31:2
    68%

    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.

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    35 Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    68%

    14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

  • Num 21:6
    68%

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

  • Num 31:9
    67%

    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;

  • Lev 24:10
    67%

    10 And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;

  • Deut 2:15
    67%

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