Numbers 31:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

These caused

In the matter

Numbers 25:18

Deuteronomy 4:3

Joshua 22:17

And there

Numbers 25:9

General references

Numbers 31:9

Bible References

These caused

Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,

the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,
and a stranger is a narrow well;

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

In the matter

For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.

Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,

And there

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

General references

The Israelites took the Midianite women and their children captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property.