The Morning Psalm

Numbers 25:9

King James Version

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Numbers 25:9, KJV

Numbers 25:9 in context

7And 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;

8And 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.

9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

About this book

The Book of Numbers — summary, themes & key verses

The long wilderness — Israel's wanderings, and the faithfulness of God through them.