Numbers 31:16

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What does Numbers 31:16 mean?

Numbers 31:16 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Numbers 31:16

• 2 Peter 2:15

  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

• Numbers 25:1-9

  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal–peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. …

• Revelation 2:14

  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

• Deuteronomy 4:3

  Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal–peor: for all the men that followed Baal–peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

• Joshua 22:17

  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

• Numbers 24:14

  And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

• Proverbs 23:27

  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

• Numbers 25:18

  For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

• Ecclesiastes 7:26

  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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Context

• Numbers 31:15

  And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

• Numbers 31:16

  Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

• Numbers 31:17

  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

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