Numbers 25:1
Now Israel, at that time, dwelt in Shittim, and the people were fornicating with the daughters of Moab,
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In The King James Version
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
In Context
2who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate, and they adored their gods.
Cross References
Exodus 34:15Do not enter into a pact with the men of those regions, lest, when they will have fornicated with their gods and worshiped their idols, someone might call upon you to eat from what was immolated.
Numbers 31:15said: “Why have you spared the females?
Numbers 33:49And they made camp there, from Beth-jeshimoth all the way to Abel-shittim, in the level places of the Moabites,
Joshua 3:1And so, Joshua arose in the night, and he moved the camp. And they departed from Shittim, and they went to the Jordan: he, and all the sons of Israel, and they remained there for three days.
Psalms 106:28And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress.
Hosea 9:10I discovered Israel like grapes in the desert. Like the first fruits of the fig tree, I saw their fathers on the end of its branches. But they went in to Baal-peor, and they have been estranged by intermingling, and they have become abominable, just like the things that they chose to love.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:1
Israel, having escaped the curse of Balaam, here sustains a great deal of damage and reproach by the counsel of Balaam, who, it seems, before he left Balak, put him into a more effectual way than that which Balak thought of to separate between the Israelites and their God. "The Lord will not be prevailed with by Balaam's charms to ruin them; try if they will not be prevailed with by the charms of the daughters of Moab to ruin themselves." None are more fatally bewitched than those that are bewitched by their own… Read the whole commentary →