Numbers 25:1
Nowe whiles Israel abode in Shittim, the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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Cross References
Exodus 34:15Lest thou make a compact with the inhabitantes of the lande, and when they goe a whoring after their gods, and doe sacrifice vnto their gods, some man call thee, and thou eate of his sacrifice:
Numbers 31:15And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?
Numbers 33:49And they pitched by Iorden, from Bethieshimoth vnto Abel-shittim in the playne of Moab.
Joshua 3:1Then Ioshua rose very earely, and they remoued from Shittim, and came to Iorden, he, and all the children of Israel, and lodged there, before they went ouer.
Psalms 106:28They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.
Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wildernes: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the figge tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselues vnto that shame, and their abominations were according to their louers.
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 →