KJV ORIGINAL
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
And those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that 24,000 people died as a result of God's judgment through a plague.
📚 Historical Context
This plague came upon the Israelites as God's judgment after they engaged in sexual immorality and idol worship with the Moabite women at Baal-peor. The plague was stopped when Phinehas, Aaron's grandson, took decisive action to defend God's honor by killing an Israelite man and Midianite woman who were openly defying God. This incident occurred near the end of Israel's 40 years of wilderness wandering, just before they entered the Promised Land.
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