Numbers 31:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Besides those slain in battle, they killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they also killed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword.

Cross References

Psalm 10:2

Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor; they trap them by their cunning schemes.

Psalm 9:16

The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.

Proverbs 11:3

The honesty of the upright guides them; the faithless are ruined by their duplicity.

Proverbs 13:17

A wicked messenger brings on disaster, but a trustworthy envoy is a healing remedy.

Habakkuk 3:7

The tents of Cushan trembled, the pavilions of the land of Midian.

Numbers 22:10

Balaam answered God, “Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me the message:

Numbers 22:4

So Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will devour everything around us as an ox devours the grass of the field.” At that time Balak, son of Zippor, was king of Moab;

Numbers 22:5

and he sent messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor on the river, in the land of the Ammonites, to summon him with these words, “A people has come out of Egypt! They have covered up the earth and are settling down opposite me!

Numbers 23:10

Who has ever counted the dust of Jacob, who numbered Israel’s dust-cloud? May I die the death of the just, may my end be like theirs!

Numbers 24:14

“But now that I am about to go to my own people, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

Numbers 24:25

Then Balaam set out on his journey home; and Balak also went his way.

Numbers 25:15

The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, daughter of Zur, who was head of a clan, an ancestral house, in Midian. Vengeance on the Midianites.

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.

Numbers 31:16

“These are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice were behind the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord in the affair at Peor, so that plague struck the Lord’s community.

Numbers 31:9

But the Israelites took captive the women of the Midianites with their children, and all their herds and flocks and wealth as loot,

2 Peter 2:15

Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Revelation 19:20

The beast was caught and with it the false prophet who had performed in its sight the signs by which he led astray those who had accepted the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped its image. The two were thrown alive into the fiery pool burning with sulfur.

Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.