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Numbers 16:48

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And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
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  1. 2 Samuel 24:25Rank 1 from verse 48
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    25And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

  2. Numbers 25:8–11Rank 2 from verse 48
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    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.

    10¶ And 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.

  3. Psalms 106:30Rank 3 from verse 48
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    30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

  4. 1 Chronicles 21:26–27Rank 4 from verse 48
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    26And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

    27And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

  5. 1 Thessalonians 1:10Rank 5 from verse 48
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    10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

  6. 1 Timothy 2:5–6Rank 6 from verse 48
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    5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

    6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

  7. 2 Samuel 24:16–17Rank 7 from verse 48
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    16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

    17And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

  8. Hebrews 7:24–25Rank 8 from verse 48
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    24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

    25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

  9. James 5:16Rank 9 from verse 48
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    16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

  10. John 5:14Rank 10 from verse 48
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    14Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

  11. Numbers 16:18Rank 11 from verse 48
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    18And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

  12. Numbers 16:35Rank 12 from verse 48
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    35And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

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Numbers 16:48

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dead

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Sense 1: Without life; deprived of life. Sense 2: Lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.

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living

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Sense 1: Alive or having life. Sense 2: As a noun, one's means of support or possessions.

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stayed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of stay. Sense 1: Remained, waited, stopped, or delayed. Sense 2: Supported, sustained, relied, or rested upon. Sense 3: Restrained or held back.

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16:46¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

16:47And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

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16:49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

16:50And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

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