Cozbi
A Midianite woman, daughter of a tribal chief, brought into the camp by an Israelite man in full view of Moses and the weeping assembly at the height of the apostasy at Peor. Phinehas the priest followed the pair into the tent and ran them both through with a spear, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
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NumbersThe name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.
Numbers 25:15 — Killed by Phinehas
for they harassed you with their wiles, wherein they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the incident regarding Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.”
Numbers 25:18
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
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