Numbers 31:16

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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.

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  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
  • Num 25:1-9 : 1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: 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. 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, 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.
  • 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.
  • 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,
  • Num 24:14 : 14 So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
  • 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.

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  • Num 25:16-18
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    84%

    16Then the Lord said to Moses,

    17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

    18For 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.

  • Josh 22:16-18
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    16This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

    17Was 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,

    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.

  • Num 25:3
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    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.

  • Num 25:5-6
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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.

    6Then 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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    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.

  • Num 31:17
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    17So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

  • Num 23:27-28
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    27Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.

    28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.

  • Num 25:8-10
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    8And 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.

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

    10And the Lord said to Moses,

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

  • Ps 106:28-29
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    28And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

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

  • 2 Pet 2:15
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    15Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • Num 22:7
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    7So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.

  • Num 16:41
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    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.

  • Num 22:5
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    5So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:

  • Neh 13:2
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    2Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.

  • Num 22:41
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    41And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

  • Num 11:33
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    33But 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 24:9
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    9Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:

  • Num 25:1
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    1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

  • Num 16:26
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    26And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

  • Num 22:2
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    2Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites.

  • Num 23:11
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    11Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

  • Exod 32:35
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    35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

  • Num 23:17
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    17So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?

  • Josh 22:20
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    20Did 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.

  • Num 14:37
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    37Those same men who said evil of the land, came to their death by disease before the Lord.

  • Num 16:20-21
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    20And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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

  • Deut 23:4
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    4Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.

  • Rev 2:14
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    14But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

  • Hos 9:10
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    10I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

  • Num 16:49
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    49Now 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.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

  • Deut 31:16
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    16And 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:8
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    8Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

  • Deut 3:29
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    29So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.

  • Num 26:1
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    1Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,