Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,
Jeremiah 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
1 Corinthians 10:19What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol 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 →