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
And now behold, I go unto my people: come let me show thee, what this people shall do to thy folk in the latter days."
Numbers 25:1
And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab,
Proverbs 23:27
For a whore is a deep grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.
2 Peter 2:15
and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast, there, they that maintain the doctrine of Balaam, which taught in Balak to put occasion of sin before the children of Israel, that they should eat of meat dedicated unto idols, and to commit fornication.

In the matter

Numbers 25:18
for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee, which they have beguiled you, through Peor and through their sister Cozbi the daughter of a lord in Midian, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."
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.
Joshua 22:17
Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

And there

Numbers 25:9
And there died in the plague twenty four thousand.

General references

Numbers 31:9
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian prisoners, and their children; and spoiled all their cattle, their substance and their goods.