Psalms 106:28
And they joined themselves unto Ba'al-pe'or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27And to let their seed fall among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
29And they provoked him to anger with their deeds: and there broke in among them the plague.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit incest with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have been joined unto Baal-peor.
Deuteronomy 4:3Your own eyes have seen that which the Lord hath done because of Baal-peor; for every man that followed Baal-peor, him the Lord thy God hath destroyed from the midst of thee.
Joshua 22:17Have we had too little in the iniquity of Peor,—from which we are not yet cleansed until this day,—when there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord?
Jeremiah 10:8But at once shall they be shown to be brutish and foolish: it is a doctrine of vanities, it concerneth but wood.
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 →