Bible Problem: Numbers 25:9 vs 1 Corinthians 10:8. Did 24,000 or 23,000 Israelites Die In the Plague?
Problem:
In Numbers chapter 25 it says that the people of Israel joined Baalpeor and worshiped false gods. So they were punished with a plague.
Numbers 25:9:
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
But in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 8 (talking about the Israelites in the wilderness) it says:
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
So how many Israelites died in the plague? 24,000 or 23,000?
Solution:
1 Corinthians 1:8 says that 23,000 Israelites died in one day. So obviously the other 1,000 people died later.