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Numbers 31:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings #– #Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian.  They also killed Balaam son of Beor  with the sword.

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The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.


But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,   who taught Balak to place a stumbling block   in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols   and to commit sexual immorality.


Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,  have plunged into Balaam’s error  for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.


But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with it the false prophet, who had performed the signs in its presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image with these signs.  Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.


They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path  and have followed the path of Balaam,  the son of Bosor,  who loved the wages of wickedness


For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.’


Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.


Balaam replied to God, ‘Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent this message to me:


So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, ‘This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.’ Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,


Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.’


The Israelites took the Midianite women and their dependents captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property.


‘Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.


I see the tents of Cushan  in distress; the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.


he sent messengers to Balaam  son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people.  , Balak said to him, ‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land  and are living right opposite me.


Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered even quarter of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs.


The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the treacherous destroys them.


A wicked envoy falls into trouble, but a trustworthy courier brings healing.





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