Numbers 31:16
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Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

these cause

Numbers 24:14 But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Numbers 25:1-3 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, . . .

Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

2 Peter 2:15 Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity,

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: 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 and to commit fornication.

in the manner

Numbers 25:18 Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

Joshua 22:17 Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.

and there

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Context
Vengeance on Midian
15Said: Why have you saved the women? 16Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?17Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.…
Cross References
Jude 1:11
Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

Revelation 2:14
But I have against thee a few things: 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 and to commit fornication.

Numbers 24:14
But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:9
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Numbers 31:8
And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Lexicon
“Look,
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

these women
הֵ֜נָּה (hên·nāh)
Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2007: Themselves

{caused} the sons
לִבְנֵ֤י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

through the counsel
בִּדְבַ֣ר (biḏ·ḇar)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of Balaam,
בִּלְעָ֔ם (bil·‘ām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1109: Balaam -- a prophet

to turn
לִמְסָר־ (lim·sār-)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 4560: To sunder, set apart, apostatize

unfaithfully
מַ֥עַל (ma·‘al)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4604: An unfaithful or treacherous act

against the LORD
בַּיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

at
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Peor,
פְּע֑וֹר (pə·‘ō·wr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6465: Peor -- a mountain in Moab, also a god worshiped there

so that the plague
הַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה (ham·mag·gê·p̄āh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4046: A blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence

struck
הָי֨וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the congregation
בַּעֲדַ֥ת (ba·‘ă·ḏaṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5712: A stated assemblage

of the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


Additional Translations
“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.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.

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

For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

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

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.

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

lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.
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