Numbers 16:48

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

And he stood {H5975} between the dead {H4191} and the living {H2416}; and the plague {H4046} was stayed {H6113}.

He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

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

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 24:25 (3 votes)

    And 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.

  • 1 Timothy 2:5 (2 votes)

    For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

  • 1 Timothy 2:6 (2 votes)

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

  • Numbers 16:18 (2 votes)

    And 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.

  • Psalms 106:30 (2 votes)

    Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.

  • 2 Samuel 24:16 (2 votes)

    And 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.

  • 2 Samuel 24:17 (2 votes)

    And 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.