Numbers 31:16

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • 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.
  • Num 25:1-9 : 1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: 2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 3 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel." 5 Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor." 6 Behold, 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. 7 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 8 and 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. 9 Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 Your 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.
  • Josh 22:17 : 17 Is 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,
  • Num 24:14 : 14 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
  • Num 25:18 : 18 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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  • Num 25:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

    18 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."

  • Josh 22:16-18
    3 verses
    82%

    16 "Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, 'What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?

    17 Is 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,

    18 that 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 25:3
    80%

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

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

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

    6 Behold, 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.

  • Deut 4:3
    78%

    3 Your 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 31:17
    78%

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

  • Num 23:27-28
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    77%

    27 Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

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

  • Num 25:8-10
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    77%

    8 and 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.

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

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Josh 13:22
    76%

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

  • Ps 106:28-29
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    28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

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

  • 2 Pet 2:15
    75%

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

  • Num 22:7
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    7 The 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.

  • Num 16:41
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    41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed Yahweh's people!"

  • Num 22:5
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    5 He 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.

  • Neh 13:2
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    2 because 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.

  • Num 22:41
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    41 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

  • Num 11:33
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    33 While 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.

  • Josh 24:9
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    9 Then 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;

  • Num 25:1
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    1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

  • Num 16:26
    73%

    26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!"

  • Num 22:2
    73%

    2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

  • Num 23:11
    73%

    11 Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

  • Exod 32:35
    73%

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

  • Num 23:17
    73%

    17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

  • Josh 22:20
    73%

    20 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.'"

  • Num 14:37
    73%

    37 even those men who did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

  • Num 16:20-21
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    72%

    20 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

    21 "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"

  • Deut 23:4
    72%

    4 because 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.

  • Rev 2:14
    72%

    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.

  • Hos 9:10
    72%

    10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

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

  • Num 16:49
    72%

    49 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22 At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

  • Deut 31:16
    72%

    16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

  • 1 Cor 10:8
    72%

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

  • Exod 34:16
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    16 and 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.

  • Deut 3:29
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    29 So we stayed in the valley over against Beth Peor.

  • Num 26:1
    72%

    1 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,