Psalms 106:28
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.
29And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
Numbers 25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel: Let every man kill his neighbours, that have been initiated to Beelphegor.
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.
Joshua 22:17Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.
Jeremiah 10:8They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.
1 Corinthians 10:19What then ? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing ? Or, that the idol is any thing ?
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 →