Numbers 25:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

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  • Num 16:46-48 : 46 Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!” 47 So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
  • Num 25:5 : 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”
  • Num 25:11 : 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.
  • 2 Sam 24:25 : 25 Then David built an altar for the LORD there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the LORD accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 David said to Ornan,“Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the LORD– I’ll pay top price– so that the plague may be removed from the people.”
  • Ps 106:29-31 : 29 They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them. 30 Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided. 31 This was credited to him as a righteous act for all generations to come.

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  • Num 25:5-7
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    5So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

    7When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand,

  • Num 25:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

    11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.

  • Ps 106:29-30
    2 verses
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    29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

    30Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided.

  • Num 31:16-17
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    77%

    16Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!

    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

  • Num 16:48-50
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    48He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

    49Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

    50Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

  • Judg 20:28
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    28Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the LORD in those days),“Should we once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, or should we quit?” The LORD said,“Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them over to you.”

  • Num 25:14-18
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    14Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed– the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman– was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan of the Simeonites.

    15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

    16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

    18because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

  • 2 Sam 24:15
    72%

    15So the LORD sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

  • Num 11:33
    71%

    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Josh 22:13
    70%

    13The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 22:17
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    17The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the LORD.

  • Num 25:3
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    3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

  • Josh 22:31-32
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    31Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,“Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not disobeyed the LORD in this. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD’s judgment.”

    32Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 26:1
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    1A Second Census Required After the plague the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

  • Exod 32:27
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    27and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”

  • 1 Sam 4:10-11
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    10So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell in battle.

    11The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

  • 1 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14So the LORD sent a plague through Israel, and 70,000 Israelite men died.

  • Ps 78:31
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    31when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

  • 2 Sam 24:25
    69%

    25Then David built an altar for the LORD there and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And the LORD accepted prayers for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

  • Deut 22:22
    69%

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • 1 Chr 21:7
    69%

    7God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel.

  • Josh 22:20
    69%

    20When Achan son of Zerah disobeyed the command about the city’s riches, the entire Israelite community was judged, though only one man had sinned. He most certainly died for his sin!’”

  • Judg 20:25
    69%

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • Num 14:37
    68%

    37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

  • Josh 13:22
    68%

    22The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.

  • Exod 4:24
    68%

    24Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

  • Josh 8:26
    68%

    26Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

  • Num 31:2
    68%

    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    68%

    14So look, the LORD is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

  • Num 21:6
    68%

    6So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

  • Num 31:9
    67%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Lev 24:10
    67%

    10A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

  • Deut 2:15
    67%

    15Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.