Numbers 25:1
Israel [God prevails] stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute + 25:1. Quoted in 1 Cor 10:8 with the daughters of Moab [From father];
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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 34:15“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their deities, and sacrifice to their deities, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
Numbers 31:15Moses [Drawn out] said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
Numbers 33:49They encamped by the Jordan [Descender], from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel [Vanity, Mourning] Shittim in the plains of Moab [From father]. (RY:5, LY:3)
Psalms 106:28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, 2 and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 1
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 →