Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
In Context
27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in upon them.
Cross References
Numbers 25:1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit lewdness with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 25:5And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor.
Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Joshua 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
1 Corinthians 10:19What then do I say? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
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 →