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
and said unto Moses, "Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD against the sun, that the wrath of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed - in one day, twenty three thousand.

General references

Numbers 1:23
were numbered in the tribe of Simeon forty nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 26:1
And after the plague, the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar, saying,
Deuteronomy 28:21
And the LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from the land whither thou goest to enjoy it.