Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit incest with the daughters of Moab.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:15Make thou then no covenant with the inhabitants of the land; lest that, if they go astray after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, any one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Numbers 31:15And Moses said unto them, Have ye allowed all the females to live?
Numbers 33:49And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-hayeshimoth even unto Abel-hashittim in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 3:1And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they broke up from Shittim, and came close to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
Psalms 106:28And they joined themselves unto Ba'al-pe'or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Hosea 9:10Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the fig-tree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Ba'al-pe'or: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those 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 →