Numbers 25
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Now Israel remained in a Acacia Grove, and the b people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
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c They invited the people to d the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and e bowed down to their gods.
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So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and f the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, g "Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, h that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
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So Moses said to i the judges of Israel, j "Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor."
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And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, k who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
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Now l when Phinehas m the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
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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 n the plague was o stopped among the children of Israel.
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And p those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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q "Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in r My zeal.
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"Therefore say, s 'Behold, I give to him My t covenant of peace;
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'and it shall be to him and u his descendants after him a covenant of v an everlasting priesthood, because he was w zealous for his God, and x made atonement for the children of Israel.' "
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Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's house among the Simeonites.
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And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of y Zur; he was head of the people of a father's house in Midian.
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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z "Harass the Midianites, and attack them;
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"for they harassed you with their a schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor."
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Numbers 33:49
They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the Abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 2:1
Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.
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Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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Joshua 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
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Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 32:38
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.
1 Corinthians 10:20
Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
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Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
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Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.
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Numbers 25:11
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.
Deuteronomy 13:17
So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers.
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers.
Deuteronomy 13:9
But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
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Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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Exodus 6:25
Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
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Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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Numbers 16:46 - 48
So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.
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Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.
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Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. ...
Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods...
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is no...
1 Kings 14:22
Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, an...
Psalms 78:58
For they provoked Him to anger with their high ...
Ezekiel 16:38
And I will judge you as women who break wedlock...
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Malachi 2:4
Then you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, That My covenant with Levi may continue," Says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 2:5
My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, And I gave them to him that he might fear Me; So he feared Me And was reverent before My name.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
Ezekiel 34:25
I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Malachi 2:5
My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, And I gave them to him that he might fear Me; So he feared Me And was reverent before My name.
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1 Chronicles 6:4 - 15
Eleazar begot Phinehas, and Phinehas begot Abishua.
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Exodus 40:15
"You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to Me as priests; for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
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Acts 22:3
I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers' law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.
Romans 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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Hebrews 2:17
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
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Numbers 31:8
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed - Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
Joshua 13:21
All the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses had struck with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.
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Numbers 31:1 - 3
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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Numbers 31:16
Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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