Numbers 31:8

World English Bible (2000)

They 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.

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  • Josh 13:21-22 : 21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22 The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
  • Num 25:15 : 15 The 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.
  • 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."
  • Num 22:4 : 4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
  • Num 22:10 : 10 Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
  • Num 24:25 : 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
  • Ps 9:16 : 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 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;
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe 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.
  • 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.
  • Rev 19:20 : 20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 31:7
    82%

    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Josh 13:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

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

  • Num 31:9-11
    3 verses
    78%

    9 The 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.

    10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

    11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

  • Judg 7:25
    74%

    25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

  • Num 25:5
    73%

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

  • Num 25:15-18
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    72%

    15 The 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.

    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."

  • Num 31:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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

    3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

  • Num 31:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

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

  • Num 22:7
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 24:9
    70%

    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 22:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

    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.

  • Judg 1:5
    69%

    5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

  • Judg 8:12
    69%

    12 Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.

  • Ps 83:9
    69%

    9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

  • Judg 8:10
    69%

    10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

  • Ps 135:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings,

    11 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

  • Deut 31:4
    69%

    4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

  • Ps 83:11
    69%

    11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

  • 2 Kgs 3:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 They said, "This is blood. The kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each other. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!"

    24 When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

  • 1 Kgs 18:40
    69%

    40 Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

  • 1 Chr 5:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21 They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

    22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

  • Judg 3:29
    68%

    29 They struck of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.

  • Judg 20:31
    68%

    31 The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

  • Num 21:35
    68%

    35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.

  • Num 22:2
    68%

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

  • Judg 8:18
    68%

    18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "They were like you. Each one resembled the children of a king."

  • Gen 14:2
    67%

    2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

  • Deut 1:4
    67%

    4 after he had struck Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.

  • Judg 20:35
    67%

    35 Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.