Numbers 25:1
Israel stayed in Shittim, and the men began to prostitute themselves with women of Moab,
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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:15So be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for they prostitute themselves to their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods. Then one of them will invite you and you will eat some of his sacrifice,
Numbers 31:15Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?
Numbers 33:49They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 3:1Joshua got up early in the morning, and they set out from Shittim. They came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and they camped there before they crossed over.
Psalms 106:28They worshiped the Baal of Peor 1 and ate the sacrifices offered to the dead. 1
Hosea 9:10Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. 1 Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. 1 But they went to Baal Peor, 1 and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. 1 They became as detestable as the idol they loved. 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 →