Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 cast out their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
29Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry 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 the Baal of Peor.'
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did in Baal-peor; for all the men that followed the Baal of Peor, the LORD 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 the LORD,
Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the vanities by which they are instructed are but a stock;
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 →