Numbers 31:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

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  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the `son' of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
  • Num 25:1-9 : 1 And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab, 2 and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods, 3 and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel. 4 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah -- over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back from Israel.' 5 And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.' 6 And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting; 7 and Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, the priest, seeth, and riseth from the midst of the company, and taketh a javelin in his hand, 8 and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel; 9 and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;
  • Josh 22:17 : 17 Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day -- and the plague is in the company of Jehovah,
  • Num 24:14 : 14 and, now, lo, I am going to my people; come, I counsel thee `concerning' that which this people doth to thy people, in the latter end of the days.'
  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a harlot `is' a deep ditch, And a strange woman `is' a strait pit.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Num 25:18 : 18 for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, `with' which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

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  • Num 25:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

    17`Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,

    18for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, `with' which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

  • Josh 22:16-18
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    82%

    16`Thus said all the company of Jehovah, What `is' this trespass which ye have trespassed against the God of Israel, to turn back to-day from after Jehovah, by your building for you an altar, for your rebelling to-day against Jehovah?

    17Is the iniquity of Peor little to us, from which we have not been cleansed till this day -- and the plague is in the company of Jehovah,

    18that ye turn back to-day from after Jehovah? and it hath been -- ye rebel to-day against Jehovah -- and to-morrow against all the company of Israel He is wroth.

  • Num 25:3
    80%

    3and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.

  • Num 25:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5And Moses saith unto the judges of Israel, `Slay ye each his men who are joined to Baal-Peor.'

    6And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting;

  • Deut 4:3
    78%

    3`Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

  • Num 31:17
    78%

    17`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

  • Num 23:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27And Balak saith unto Balaam, `Come, I pray thee, I take thee unto another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God -- to pierce it for me from thence.'

    28And Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,

  • Num 25:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman -- unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

    9and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

    10And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

  • Josh 13:22
    76%

    22And Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.

  • Ps 106:28-29
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    76%

    28And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

    29And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

  • 2 Pet 2:15
    75%

    15having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the `son' of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

  • Num 22:7
    75%

    7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian go, and divinations in their hand, and they come in unto Balaam, and speak unto him the words of Balak,

  • Num 16:41
    74%

    41And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur, on the morrow, against Moses and against Aaron, saying, `Ye -- ye have put to death the people of Jehovah.'

  • Num 22:5
    74%

    5and he sendeth messengers unto Balaam son of Beor, to Pethor, which `is' by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, `Lo, a people hath come out of Egypt; lo, it hath covered the eye of the land, and it is abiding over-against me;

  • Neh 13:2
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    2because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.

  • Num 22:41
    74%

    41and it cometh to pass in the morning, that Balak taketh Balaam, and causeth him to go up the high places of Baal, and he seeth from thence the extremity of the people.

  • Num 11:33
    74%

    33The flesh is yet between their teeth -- it is not yet cut off -- and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people -- a very great smiting;

  • Josh 24:9
    74%

    9`And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, riseth and fighteth against Israel, and sendeth and calleth for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you,

  • Num 25:1
    74%

    1And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

  • Num 16:26
    73%

    26and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.'

  • Num 22:2
    73%

    2And Balak son of Zippor seeth all that Israel hath done to the Amorite,

  • Num 23:11
    73%

    11And Balak saith unto Balaam, `What hast thou done to me? to pierce mine enemies I have taken thee -- and lo, thou hast certainly blessed;'

  • Exod 32:35
    73%

    35And Jehovah plagueth the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

  • Num 23:17
    73%

    17And he cometh unto him, and lo, he is standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him, and Balak saith to him: `What hath Jehovah spoken?'

  • Josh 22:20
    73%

    20Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and on all the company of Israel there was wrath? and he alone expired not in his iniquity.'

  • Num 14:37
    73%

    37even the men bringing out an evil account of the land die by the plague before Jehovah;

  • Num 16:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

    21`Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;'

  • Deut 23:4
    72%

    4because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against thee Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile thee;

  • Rev 2:14
    72%

    14`But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

  • Hos 9:10
    72%

    10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in `to' Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

  • Num 31:15
    72%

    15And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

  • Num 16:49
    72%

    49and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah;

  • Deut 9:22
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    22`And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

  • Deut 31:16
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    16And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

  • 1 Cor 10:8
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    8neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

  • Exod 34:16
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    16and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

  • Deut 3:29
    72%

    29`And we dwell in a valley over-against Beth-Peor.

  • Num 26:1
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    1And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,