Numbers 25:4

New Living Translation

The Lord issued the following command to Moses: “Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the Lord in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:6

So let seven of Saul’s sons be handed over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord at Gibeon, on the mountain of the Lord.” “All right,” the king said, “I will do it.”

2 Samuel 21:9

The men of Gibeon executed them on the mountain before the Lord. So all seven of them died together at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Psalm 106:29

They angered the Lord with all these things, so a plague broke out among them.

Exodus 18:25

He chose capable men from all over Israel and appointed them as leaders over the people. He put them in charge of groups of one thousand, one hundred, fifty, and ten.

Jonah 3:9

Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.

Numbers 25:18

because they assaulted you with deceit and tricked you into worshiping Baal of Peor, and because of Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, who was killed at the time of the plague because of what happened at Peor.”

Deuteronomy 13:11

Then all Israel will hear about it and be afraid, and no one will act so wickedly again.

Deuteronomy 13:13

that scoundrels among you are leading their fellow citizens astray by saying, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods you have not known before.

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a large nation, just as he swore to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21:23

the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession.

Deuteronomy 4:3

“You saw for yourself what the Lord did to you at Baal-peor. There the Lord your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the god of Peor.

Joshua 22:17

Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the Lord.

Joshua 23:2

called together all the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel. He said to them, “I am now a very old man.