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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 25 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Numbers 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/24.htm" title="Numbers 24">◄</a> Numbers 25 <a href="../numbers/26.htm" title="Numbers 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/numbers/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Worship of Baal of Peor</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:2 The Heb. lacks what they had sacrificed">a</a></span> and then worshipped their gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The people joined the Baal-peor cult.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:3 Lit. joined themselves to Baal-Peor; and so throughout the chapter">b</a></span> As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>so the LORD told Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:4 Or hang">c</a></span> them in broad daylight for the LORD, so the LORD’s burning anger may be withdrawn from Israel.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Moses ordered the judges of Israel, “Each one of you is to execute the men in his own tribe<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:5 The Heb. lacks in his own tribe">d</a></span> who joined the Baal-peor cult.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When Eleazar’s son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up from the middle of the community, grabbed a javelin in his hand, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>followed the Israeli man inside his tent,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:8 Or inner part of the tent">e</a></span> and impaled the two of them—the Israeli man and the woman—right through both of them and into her abdomen. Then the plague infecting the Israelis was brought to a halt. Nevertheless, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>24,000 people died because of the plague.</p> <p class="heading">God Commends Phinehas</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The LORD told Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Eleazar’s son Phinehas, grandson of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from Israel. Because his zealousness reflected my own zeal for them, I didn’t consume Israel in my jealousy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, I’m certainly going to be giving him my covenant of peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for him and for his descendants after him, too, a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelis.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the name of the Israeli man who was slain, along with the Midianite woman, was Salu’s son Zimri, a leader from the tribe of Simeon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The woman who was slain, that is, the Midianite woman, was named Cozbi. She was the daughter of Zur, a leader<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="25:15 Lit. head">f</a></span> of one of the ancestral houses of Midian.</p> <p class="heading">God Orders the Destruction of Midian</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Later, the LORD ordered Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Attack the Midianites and execute them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>because they’ve acted deceitfully, bringing trouble to you in this incident at Peor with Cozbi, daughter of a prince from Midian, who was killed during the plague that came about because of the incident at Peor.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 25:2 The Heb. lacks <i>what they had sacrificed</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 25:3 Lit. <i>joined themselves to Baal-Peor</i>; and so throughout the chapter<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 25:4 Or <i>hang</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 25:5 The Heb. lacks <i>in his own tribe</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 25:8 Or <i>inner part of the tent</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 25:15 Lit. <i>head</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/numbers/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Bible Hub Responsive 2 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <!-- Bible Hub Responsive 2 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>