Numbers 25:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

So he said to Moses, “Take the Israelite leaders who are responsible for this and have them killed in front of my sacred tent where everyone can see. Maybe then I will stop being angry with the Israelites.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:3

You saw how he killed everyone who worshiped the god Baal Peor.

2 Samuel 21:6

Give us seven of his descendants. We will hang these men near the place where the Lord is worshiped in Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the Lord's chosen king.” “I'll give them to you,” David said.

Deuteronomy 21:23

you must not leave it there overnight. Bury it the same day, because the dead body of a criminal hanging on a tree will bring God's curse on the land. The Lord your God is giving this land to you, so don't make it unclean by leaving the bodies of executed criminals on display.

Numbers 25:11

“In my anger, I would have wiped out the Israelites if Phinehas had not been faithful to me.

2 Samuel 21:9

turned them over to the Gibeonites, who hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where the Lord was worshiped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Joshua 23:2

One day he called a meeting of the leaders of the tribes of Israel, including the old men, the judges, and the officials. Then he told them: I am now very old.

Joshua 22:17

Wasn't our people's sin at Peor terrible enough for you? The Lord punished us by sending a horrible sickness that killed many of us, and we still suffer because of that sin.

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must take your swords and kill every one of them, and their livestock too.

Deuteronomy 13:13

You may hear that some worthless people have talked everyone there into worshiping other gods, even though these gods had never done anything for them.

Exodus 18:25

He chose some competent leaders from every tribe in Israel and put them over groups of 10, 50, 100, and 1,000.

Psalm 106:29

They did such terrible things that you punished them with a deadly disease.

Deuteronomy 13:11

And when the rest of Israel hears about it, they will be afraid, and no one else will ever do such an evil thing again.

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a criminal is put to death, and you hang the dead body on a tree,