Numbers 25:1

But Israel abode in Shittin; and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

In Context

2And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their idols, and the people did eat and bowed down to their idols.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:15Lest thou strike a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and go erring after their idols, and to their idols offer sacrifices, and they invite thee, and thou eat of their sacrifices,

Numbers 31:15And Mosheh said to them, Have you spared every woman?

Numbers 33:49And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth unto the vale of Sittin in the fields of Moab.

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 →

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