Numbers 25:9
in Numbers 25but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
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ASV
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
KJV
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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This verse in Numbers 25
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAs far as that goes, we too have examples from this same past in favor of our own way of thinking, examples of a judgment on fornication which was not only not remiss but rather immediately executed. It is quite enough, I should think, that so great a number of the chosen people, twenty-four thousand, perished at one stroke after they had fornicated with the daughters of Midian. I prefer, however, for the glory of Christ, to derive ecclesiastical discipline from Christ.
This site's exposition
those who died in the plague
on Numbers 25:9-10
Numbers gives 24,000 and 1 Corinthians 10:8 gives "twenty-three thousand", with Paul adding that they died "in one day". Numbers gives no span and Paul gives one day, so the two figures stand as written, unsettled by the text.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. The apostle says 23,000 1Co 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 See Gill on 1Co 10:8.
Twenty four thousand - St. Paul says twenty three thousand, 1 Cor. x, 8. The odd thousand here added were slain by the Judges according to the order of Moses, the rest by the immediate hand of God, but both sorts died of the plague, the word being used, as often it is, for the sword, or hand, or stroke of God.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Twenty and four thousand - Paul 1Co 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.
Those that died - were twenty and four thousand - St. Paul, 1Co 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 Num 25:4, and 23,000 in consequence of the orders given Num 25:5; making 24,000 in the whole. St. Paul probably refers only to the latter number.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּהְי֕וּ | vaiyihyu | and they were | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| הַמֵּתִ֖ים | hametim | those [who] died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑ה | bamagefah | by the plague | H4046 → | 25 times |
| אַרְבָּעָ֥ה | ʾarbaah | four | H702 → | 318 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| אָֽלֶף׃ פ | ʾalef | thousand | H505 → | 505 times |
וַיִּהְי֕וּand they were
vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times
הַמֵּתִ֖יםthose [who] died
hametimH4191 →839 times
בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑הby the plague
bamagefahH4046 →25 times
אַרְבָּעָ֥הfour
ʾarbaahH702 →318 times
וְעֶשְׂרִ֖יםand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
אָֽלֶף׃ פthousand
ʾalefH505 →505 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
it leads to
- Numbers 25:1–9
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
- Psalms 106:29
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
- Numbers 25:1–9
Through
Numbers 14:37those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:10
And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
- Numbers 16:49
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
- Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- 1 Corinthians 10:10
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Tertullian, ON PURITY 6.6.12-14.