Thematic Bible




Numbers 25:1 (show verse)

And Israel abode in Shittim. And the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:2 (show verse)

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

Numbers 25:3 (show verse)

And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor, and the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel.

Numbers 25:4 (show verse)

And LORD said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of LORD may turn away from Israel.

Numbers 25:5 (show verse)

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill ye every one his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.

Numbers 25:6 (show verse)

And, behold, one of the sons 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 sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of mee

Numbers 25:7 (show verse)

And 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.

Numbers 25:8 (show verse)

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.

Numbers 25:9 (show verse)

And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Numbers 25:10 (show verse)

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 25:11 (show verse)

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

Numbers 25:12 (show verse)

Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace.

Numbers 25:13 (show verse)

And it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the sons of Israel.

Numbers 25:14 (show verse)

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

Numbers 25:15 (show verse)

And 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.

Numbers 25:16 (show verse)

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 25:17 (show verse)

Vex the Midianites, and smite them,

Numbers 25:18 (show verse)

for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor