Numbers · 18 verses
Numbers 25
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A spear enters a tent beside the Tent of Meeting while Israel weeps outside; it leaves behind a plague halted, 24,000 dead, and a “covenant of peace” for the spearman.
A tent beside the mourningvv. 1–9
At Shittim, Israel falls in with the daughters of Moab, their sacrifices, and Baal of Peor. The LORD’s anger burns, and Moses tells Israel’s judges to kill those who joined the worship. Then, with the congregation weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, an Israelite brings a Midianite woman before them. Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, takes a spear, follows them into the tent, and drives it through both. The plague stops; the tally of the dead is 24,000.
Peace, priesthood, and a command against Midianvv. 10–18
The LORD names Phinehas as the one who turned His wrath away from Israel and grants him a covenant of peace: not merely peace, but a permanent priesthood for him and his descendants. The slain Israelite is identified as Zimri son of Salu, leader of a Simeonite family; the slain woman is Cozbi, daughter of Zur, a Midianite tribal chief. Then the chapter turns its spear outward: Moses is told to attack the Midianites, because Peor and Cozbi are counted as their deceitful assault on Israel.
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Num 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Num 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
Num 25:3So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
Num 25:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Num 25:5So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
Num 25:6Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Num 25:7On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
Num 25:8followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
Num 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Num 25:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
Num 25:12Declare, therefore, that I am granting him My covenant of peace.
Num 25:13It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
Num 25:14The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
Num 25:15And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
Num 25:17“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.
Num 25:18For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
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- 91 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- 21 Corinthians 10:20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
- 12Malachi 2:4–5Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- 2Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- 1Numbers 33:49And there on the plains of Moab they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
- 1Joshua 2:1Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
- 2Exodus 34:15–16Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
- 3Joshua 22:17Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.
- 3Psalms 106:28–29They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
- 3Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- 4Deuteronomy 13:17Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
- 8Numbers 16:46–48Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- 9Deuteronomy 4:3–4Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
- 11Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- 11Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- 11Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
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