16 Look, (A)these women caused the children of Israel, through the (B)counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and (C)there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

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16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people.

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22 The children of Israel also killed with the sword (A)Balaam the son of Beor, the [a]soothsayer, among those who were killed by them.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 13:22 diviner

22 In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor,(A) who practiced divination.(B)

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