Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Bible References

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Numbers 25:4
The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people [who have committed sin with the Moabites], and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor; for all the men who followed [and participated in the worship of] Baal of Peor, the Lord your God destroyed them from among you,
1 Corinthians 10:8
We must not indulge in [nor tolerate] sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell [dead] in a single day!

General references

Numbers 1:23
those of the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.
Numbers 26:1
Then it happened after the plague that the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest,
Deuteronomy 28:21
The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.