Beor (biblical figure)
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Beor is a name which appears in relation to a king and a diviner. Because the two names vary only by a single letter, scholars have hypothesized that the two refer to the same person.
Beor and Balaam in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Numbers 31
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Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch, the central part of the Hebrew Bible, a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl
Beor (biblical figure)
…well-known story in Numbers, where he is asked to curse the Israelites but repeatedly blesses them instead. Later, he is mentioned as the instigator of tempting the Israelites into sin at Mount Peor, for which he is eventually killed. He is mentioned in passing in Deuteronomy, in a passage which repeats a synopsis of earlier biblical…
Women of Midian led captive by Israelite soldiers. Watercolour by James Tissot (c. 1900).
Phinehas slaying Zimri and Kozbi the Midianite (c.1590) by Joos van Winghe
Five Kings of Midian Slain by Israel (1728) by Gerard Hoet
Idolatry with Baal-Peor (1970) by Phillip Medhurst