Man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness
Zur was a Midianite leader whose daughter was involved with an Israelite, resulting in a plague on Israel.
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Zur Zur was one of the five kings of Midian during the time of Moses. He is described as "head of the people of a father's house in Midian" (Num.25.15). When the Israelites began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab and Midian, one Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into the camp. Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron, killed both the Israelite man and the Midianite woman, who was the daughter of Zur (Num.25.6-8,14-15). This act stopped a plague that had broken out among the Israelites as punishment for their sin.
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1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H6698
And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
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