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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 25:9

And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Fear of God;   Israel;   Judgments;   Phinehas;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Judgments, God's;   Plagues;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Simeon, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Idol, Idolatry;   Midianites;   Miracle;   Moabites;   Phinehas;   Simeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Midian;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Midianite;   Phinehas;   Zimri;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Simeon;   Zimri;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   High Priest;   Midian, Midianites;   Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Medicine;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Phinehas;   Zimri;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Midian, Midianites ;   Phinehas ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   Phinehas;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baal;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Phinehas;   Shittim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ba'al,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cozbi;   Midianitish Woman;   Moses;   Phinehas;   Plague;   Redeemer;   Tabernacle;   Zimri (1);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baal;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Balaam;   ḥanina B. ḥama;   Judaism;   Phinehas;   Plague;   Sidra;   Simeon, Tribe of;   Zimri;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Lexham English Bible
The ones who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
English Standard Version
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
New Century Version
This sickness had killed twenty-four thousand people.
New English Translation
Those that died in the plague were 24,000.
Amplified Bible
Nevertheless, those [Israelites] who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
New American Standard Bible
But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.
Legacy Standard Bible
So those who died by the plague were 24,000.
Contemporary English Version
but twenty-four thousand Israelites had already died.
Complete Jewish Bible
nevertheless, 24,000 died in the plague. Haftarah Balak: Mikhah (Micah) 5:6(7)– 6:8 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Balak: 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 2:1–22; Y'hudah (Jude) 11; Revelation 2:14–15 Adonai said to Moshe, "Pinchas the son of El‘azar, the son of Aharon the cohen, has deflected my anger from the people of Isra'el by being as zealous as I am, so that I didn't destroy them in my own zeal. Therefore say, ‘I am giving him my covenant of shalom, making a covenant with him and his descendants after him that the office of cohen will be theirs forever.' This is because he was zealous on behalf of his God and made atonement for the people of Isra'el." The name of the man from Isra'el who was killed, put to death with the woman from Midyan, was Zimri the son of Salu, leader of one of the clans from the tribe of Shim‘on. The name of the woman from Midyan who was killed was Kozbi the daughter of Tzur, and he was head of the people in one of the clans of Midyan. Adonai said to Moshe, "Treat the Midyanim as enemies and attack them; because they are treating you as enemies by the trickery they used to deceive you in the P‘or incident and in the affair of their sister Kozbi, the daughter of the leader from Midyan, the woman who was killed on the day of the plague in the P‘or incident." After the plague,
Darby Translation
And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Easy-to-Read Version
A total of 24,000 people died from that sickness.
George Lamsa Translation
And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Good News Translation
but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
Christian Standard Bible®
but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.
Literal Translation
And those that died by the plague were twenty four thousand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and there were slayne in the plage foure and twentye thousande.
American Standard Version
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Bible in Basic English
But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there dyed in the plague twentie and foure thousande.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
King James Version (1611)
And those that died in the plague, were twentie and foure thousand.
English Revised Version
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Berean Standard Bible
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and foure and twenti thousand of men weren slayn.
Young's Literal Translation
and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
Update Bible Version
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Webster's Bible Translation
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
World English Bible
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
New King James Version
And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
New Living Translation
but not before 24,000 people had died.
New Life Bible
Those who died because of this bad disease were 24,000.
New Revised Standard
Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then was it found that they who had died by the plague were four and twenty thousand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Those who died by the plague were 24,000.

Contextual Overview

6 And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness. 7 And Phinees the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand, 8 and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand. 10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace: 13 and he and his seed after him shall have a perpetual covenant of priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the smitten Israelitish man, who was smitten with the Madianitish woman, was Zambri son of Salmon, prince of a house of the tribe of Symeon. 15 And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

St. Paul reckons only 23,000: Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1,000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination - Numbers 25:4, as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter. Numbers 25:4, Numbers 25:5, Numbers 16:49, Numbers 16:50, Deuteronomy 4:3, Deuteronomy 4:4, 1 Corinthians 10:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:23 - General Numbers 11:33 - smote Numbers 14:12 - smite Numbers 14:37 - died Numbers 26:1 - General Numbers 31:16 - and there Deuteronomy 28:21 - General 2 Samuel 24:15 - the Lord 1 Chronicles 21:14 - seventy Psalms 106:29 - the plague Proverbs 7:23 - a dart Hebrews 2:2 - every

Cross-References

Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre:
Genesis 25:10
even the field and the cave which Abraam bought of the sons of Chet; there they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife.
Genesis 25:20
Abraam begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, daughter of Bathuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 25:29
And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.
Genesis 25:30
And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste of that red pottage, because I am fainting; therefore his name was called Edom.
Genesis 35:29
And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Genesis 50:13
So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. The apostle says 23,000 1 Corinthians 10:8. Moses includes those that were hanged against the sun, in the time of the plague, as well as those that were taken off by it, even all that died on this account; the apostle only those that "fell", which cannot with propriety be said of those that were hanged, who might be 1000 and so their numbers agree; but of this and other ways of removing this difficulty

1 Corinthians 10:8- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twenty and four thousand - Paul 1 Corinthians 10:8 says “three and twenty thousand,” following probably the Jewish tradition which deducted one thousand as the number slain by the hands of their brethren.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 25:9. Those that died - were twenty and four thousand. — St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:8, reckons only twenty-three thousand; though some MSS. and versions, particularly the latter Syriac and the Armenian, have twenty-four thousand, with the Hebrew text. Allowing the 24,000 to be the genuine reading, and none of the Hebrew MSS. exhibit any various reading here, the two places may be reconciled thus: 1,000 men were slain in consequence of the examination instituted Numbers 25:4, and 23,000 in consequence of the orders given Numbers 25:5; making 24,000 in the whole. St. Paul probably refers only to the latter number.


 
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