Numbers 25:1
Forsothe in that tyme Israel dwellide in Sechym; and the puple dide fornycacioun with the douytris of Moab;
Wycliffe (portions)
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 34:15make thou not couenaunt with the men of tho cuntreis, lest whanne thei han do fornycacioun with her goddis, and han worschipid the symylacris of hem, ony man clepe thee, that thou ete of thingis offrid to an ydol.
Numbers 31:15and he seide, Whi reserueden ye wymmen?
Numbers 33:49And there thei settiden tentis, fro Bethsymon `til to Belsathym, in the pleynere places of Moabitis,
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 →