Numbers 25:10

10 And the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 25:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 25:10

And the Lord spake unto Moses
Out of the cloud, or out of the tabernacle, at the door of which Moses now was, ( Numbers 25:6 ) , this was after so many had died of the plague, and after the fact of Phinehas, by which it was stopped: saying; as follows.

Numbers 25:10 In-Context

8 And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

10 And the Lord said to Moses,

11 Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

12 So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace: