Numbers 24:17   (Read all of Numbers 24)

"I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the people of Sheth.

Numbers 24:18   (Read all of Numbers 24)

Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Israel will grow strong.

Numbers 24:19   (Read all of Numbers 24)

A ruler will come out of Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city."

Numbers 24:20   (Read all of Numbers 24)

Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message: "Amalek was first among the nations, but their end will be utter destruction."

Numbers 24:21   (Read all of Numbers 24)

Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: "Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;

Numbers 24:23   (Read all of Numbers 24)

Then he spoke his message: "Alas! Who can live when God does this?

Numbers 24:24   (Read all of Numbers 24)

Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus; they will subdue Ashur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin."

Numbers 25:1   (Read all of Numbers 25)

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

Numbers 25:2   (Read all of Numbers 25)

who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

Numbers 25:3   (Read all of Numbers 25)

So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord's anger burned against them.

Numbers 25:4   (Read all of Numbers 25)

The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord's fierce anger may turn away from Israel."

Numbers 25:5   (Read all of Numbers 25)

So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor."

Numbers 25:7   (Read all of Numbers 25)

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand

Numbers 25:8   (Read all of Numbers 25)

and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman's stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;

Numbers 25:10   (Read all of Numbers 25)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 25:11   (Read all of Numbers 25)

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.

Numbers 25:14   (Read all of Numbers 25)

The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

Numbers 25:16   (Read all of Numbers 25)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 25:18   (Read all of Numbers 25)

They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident."

Numbers 26:1   (Read all of Numbers 26)

After the plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest,

Numbers 26:2   (Read all of Numbers 26)

"Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families-all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel."

Numbers 26:3   (Read all of Numbers 26)

So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,

Numbers 26:5   (Read all of Numbers 26)

The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were: through Hanok, the Hanokite clan; through Pallu, the Palluite clan;

Numbers 26:8   (Read all of Numbers 26)

The son of Pallu was Eliab,