Numbers 25:18

World English Bible (2000)

for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor."

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
  • Gen 26:10 : 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
  • Exod 32:35 : 35 Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
  • Num 31:15-16 : 15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:15-17
    3 verses
    84%

    15Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

  • Num 25:14-17
    4 verses
    81%

    14Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.

    15The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17"Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • 77%

    17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

    18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."

    6Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Ps 106:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

    29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

  • Num 25:8-10
    3 verses
    73%

    8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

    9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

    10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

  • Num 25:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

    2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

    3Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.

  • 22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

  • 4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

  • 18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

  • 18Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed awful blasphemies;

  • 35Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

  • 25They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

  • Num 31:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

    9The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

  • 33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

  • 2"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

  • 22The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

  • 2because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

  • 25Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

  • 7The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

  • 26You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

  • 16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • 9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

  • 15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

  • 5He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

  • 32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

  • 8Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

  • 20Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,

  • 51because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • 24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • 11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

  • 28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

  • 17They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

  • 30They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,