Numbers 25:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

but twenty-four thousand Israelites had already died.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:15

So that morning, the LORD sent an angel to spread a horrible disease everywhere in Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. And before it was over, seventy thousand people had died. When the angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD felt sorry for all the suffering he had caused and told the angel, “That's enough! Don't touch them.” This happened at the threshing place that belonged to Araunah the Jebusite.

Exodus 32:35

So the LORD punished the people of Israel with a terrible disease for talking Aaron into making the gold idol.

Numbers 14:37

So he sent a deadly disease that killed those men,

Numbers 25:10

The LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 26:1

After the LORD had stopped the deadly disease from killing the Israelites, he said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron,

Numbers 31:16

They are the ones who followed Balaam's advice and invited our people to worship the god Baal-Peor. That's why the LORD punished us by killing so many of our people.

1 Corinthians 10:8

Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about twenty-three thousand of them died. Don't do shameful things as they did.