◀- Numbers 25
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Israel Commits Whoredom and Idolatry
(1) Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
(2) And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
(3) So Israel joined itself to Baal Peor, and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
(4) The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the rulers 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."
(5) And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone of you kill his men who were joined to Baal Peor."
Phinehas Kills Zimri and Cozbi
(6) Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
(7) When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
(8) And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
(9) Those that died in the plague were 24,000.
God Gives Phinehas an Everlasting Priesthood
(10) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
(11) "Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was zealous for my sake among them, so that I would not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.
(12) Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace;
(13) He shall have it, and his descendants after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.' "
(14) Now the name of the Israelite who was killed, the one who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a ruler of a father’s house among the Simeonites.
(15) And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head over a people, and of a father’s house in Midian.
Midianites Are to be Vexed
(16) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
(17) "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
(18) For they harassed YOU with their deceit, with which they have deceived YOU in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake."