Psalms 106:28
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Numbers 25:5So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
Joshua 22:17Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.
Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to an idol is anything?
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 →