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.

And there

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Bible References

These caused

Numbers 24:14
Meanwhile, since I have to return to my people, come and listen while I tell you what this people will be doing to your people in the last days."
Numbers 25:1
While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women,
Proverbs 23:27
because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.
2 Peter 2:15
They have left the straight path and wandered off to follow the path of Bosor's son Balaam, who loved the reward he got for doing wrong.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.

In the matter

Numbers 25:18
because they've acted deceitfully, bringing trouble to you in this incident at Peor with Cozbi, daughter of a prince from Midian, who was killed during the plague that came about because of the incident at Peor."
Deuteronomy 4:3
You saw with your own eyes what he did in Baal Peor. The LORD your God exterminated from among you every man who followed Baal of Peor.
Joshua 22:17
Isn't the evil that happened at Peor enough for us, from which we have yet to be completely cleansed even to this point, and because of which a plague came upon the community of the LORD?

And there

Numbers 25:9
24,000 people died because of the plague.

General references

Numbers 31:9
After this, the Israelis took captive the Midianite women and children and confiscated as spoils of war all their cattle, livestock, and their goods.

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