Numbers 25:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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. Perhaps then I will stop being angry with the Israelites.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:6

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

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 worshipped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Psalm 106:29

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

Exodus 18:25

He chose some competent leaders from every tribe in Israel and put them over groups of ten, fifty, a hundred, and a thousand.

Numbers 25:11

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

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 13:13

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

Deuteronomy 13:15

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

Deuteronomy 21:22

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

Deuteronomy 21:23

you must not let it hang there overnight. Bury it the same day, because the dead body of a criminal 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.

Deuteronomy 4:3

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

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.

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.