Bible Cross References
Is the iniquity
Numbers 25:3
Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them
Numbers 25:4-18
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and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."
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Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."
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One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence.
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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,
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followed the man and the woman into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them. In this way the epidemic that was destroying Israel was stopped,
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but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
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The LORD said to Moses,
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"Because of what Phinehas has done, I am no longer angry with the people of Israel. He refused to tolerate the worship of any god but me, and that is why I did not destroy them in my anger.
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So tell him that I am making a covenant with him that is valid for all time to come.
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He and his descendants are permanently established as priests, because he did not tolerate any rivals to me and brought about forgiveness for the people's sin."
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The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the head of a family in the tribe of Simeon.
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The woman's name was Cozbi. Zur, her father, was chief of a group of Midianite clans.
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The LORD commanded Moses,
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"Attack the Midianites and destroy them,
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because of the evil they did to you when they deceived you at Peor, and because of Cozbi, who was killed at the time of the epidemic at Peor."
Deuteronomy 4:3
You yourselves saw what the LORD did at Mount Peor. He destroyed everyone who worshiped Baal there,
Deuteronomy 4:4
but those of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.
Psalm 106:28
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
Psalm 106:29
They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
from which
Ezra 9:13
Even after everything that has happened to us in punishment for our sins and wrongs, we know that you, our God, have punished us less than we deserve and have allowed us to survive.
Ezra 9:14
Then how can we ignore your commandments again and intermarry with these wicked people? If we do, you will be so angry that you will destroy us completely and let no one survive.
1 Corinthians 10:8
We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were---and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
1 Corinthians 10:11
All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.