Numbers 25:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each one of you slay his men who joined themselves to Baal of Peor.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:40

And Elijah said, Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one escape. They seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and [as God's law required] slew them there. [Deut. 13:5; 18:20.]

Exodus 18:21

Moreover, you shall choose able men from all the people–God-fearing men of truth who hate unjust gain–and place them over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, to be their rulers.

Exodus 22:20

He who sacrifices to any god but the Lord only shall be utterly destroyed.

Numbers 25:3

So Israel joined himself to [the god] Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.

Deuteronomy 13:13

That certain base fellows have gone out from your midst and have enticed away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods–gods you have not known–

Deuteronomy 13:15

You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly and all who are in it and its beasts with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 13:6

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own life entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods–gods you have not known, you nor your fathers,

Deuteronomy 13:9

But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed even now, although there came a plague [in which 24,000 died] in the congregation of the Lord, [Num. 25:1-9.]