Numbers 25:4

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord said to Moses: Gather all the leaders of the people, and publicly execute them before the Lord, that the blazing wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven men from among his descendants be given to us, that we may execute them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the Lord’s mountain.” The king replied, “I will give them up.”

2 Samuel 21:9

and delivered them into the power of the Gibeonites, who then executed them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven fell at the one time; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest—that is, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Psalm 106:29

They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

Exodus 18:25

He picked out able men from all Israel and put them in charge of the people as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? God may again repent and turn from his blazing wrath, so that we will not perish.”

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.

Numbers 25:18

for they have been your enemies by the deceitful dealings they had with you regarding Peor and their kinswoman Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite prince, who was slain at the time of the plague because of Peor.

Deuteronomy 13:11

You shall stone that person to death, for seeking to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 13:13

If you hear it said concerning one of the cities which the Lord, your God, gives you to dwell in,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must inquire carefully into the matter and investigate it thoroughly. If you find that it is true and an established fact that this abomination has been committed in your midst,

Deuteronomy 13:17

Having heaped up all its spoils in the middle of its square, you shall burn the city with all its spoils as a whole burnt offering to the Lord, your God. Let it be a heap of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21:23

his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight. You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God. You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have seen with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal-peor: the Lord, your God, destroyed from your midst everyone who followed the Baal of Peor;

Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor not enough, by which we made ourselves impure, even to this day, and a plague came upon the community of the Lord?

Joshua 23:2

he summoned all Israel, including their elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and said to them: “I am old and advanced in years.