Numbers 25:1
When the Israelites were staying at Shittim the men started to have sex with Moabite women
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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.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:15Make sure you don't agree to a peace treaty with the people living in the land, for when they prostitute themselves by worshiping and sacrificing to their gods, they will invite you to join them, and you will eat from their pagan sacrifices.
Numbers 31:15“Why did you let all the women live?” he asked them.
Numbers 33:49There on the plains of Moab they set up camp beside the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
Joshua 3:1Early the following morning Joshua and the Israelites set out from Shittim and arrived at the banks of the Jordan. There they all spent the night before crossing over.
Psalms 106:28They gave their allegiance to Baal Peor, and ate food sacrificed to the dead.
Hosea 9:10When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. When I saw your forefathers it was like seeing early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they gave themselves over to that shameful idol, becoming as filthy as the filthy thing they loved.
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 →