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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.

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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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