Numbers 25:1
And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 34:15lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a-whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts,
Numbers 31:15And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?
Numbers 33:49And they encamped by Jordan between Jeshimoth, as far as Abel to the west of Moab.
Joshua 3:1And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and departed from Shittim; and they came as far as Jordan, and lodged there before they crossed over.
Psalms 106:28Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, 1 And he brings them out of their distresses. 1
Hosea 9:10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.
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 →