Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
Numbers 25:5Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.
Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of the LORD,
Jeremiah 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
1 Corinthians 10:19What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that 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 →