Psalms 106:28
And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.
29So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 25:5So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.
Joshua 22:17Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
Jeremiah 10:8But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
1 Corinthians 10:19Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:14-34
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord . 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and… Read the whole commentary →