Then she had yet another son, whom she named Shelah. She gave birth to him in Kezib.

The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor."

Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, both of whom ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (This information is from ancient records.)

You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person's innermost being.

Where there is no wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no gossip, contention ceases.

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person's innermost being.

"I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.

So prophesy and say: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.