Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward

Bible References

What the plague was we know not; but it seems from this to have begun at one part of the camp, and to have proceeded regularly onward

Numbers 16:18
And each man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense in them and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the testimony with Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 25:8
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 belly. So the plague of the sons of Israel was stayed.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD himself repented of that evil and said to the angel that was destroying the people, It is enough; stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingfloor of Araunah, the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David built there an altar unto the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called upon the LORD, and he answered him from the heavens by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is only one God and likewise only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Hebrews 7:24
but this man, because he continues forever, has the intransmissible priesthood.
James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be whole. The effectual prayer of the righteous is very powerful.
John 5:14
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

General references

Numbers 12:13
Then Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
Numbers 16:6
Do this: Take censers, Korah, and all his company,
Deuteronomy 5:5
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the word of the LORD, for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and did not climb the mount), saying,
Deuteronomy 28:21
The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee until he has consumed thee from off the land into which thou dost enter to inherit it.
Hebrews 5:4
And no one takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.