Psalms 106:29
So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
In Context
28And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
30Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.
Cross References
Numbers 25:3So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.
Numbers 25:9But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.
Psalms 99:8You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
Ecclesiastes 7:29This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
1 Corinthians 10:8Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
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 →