Numbers 25:1

Soothly in that time Israel dwelled in Shittim (or And so the Israelites lived in Shittim); and the people did fornication with the daughters of Moab;

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

In Context

2which daughters called them to their sacrifices, and they ate (the sacrificial food), and worshipped the gods of those daughters;

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Cross References

Exodus 34:15make thou not (a) covenant with the men of those countries, lest when they have done fornication, that is, idolatry, with their gods, and have worshipped the simulacra of them, any man call thee (or someone call thee), that thou eat (some) of the things offered to an idol.

Numbers 31:15and he said to them, Why kept ye (all) [the] women (alive)?

Numbers 33:49And there they setted tents, from Bethjesimoth till to Abelshittim, in the plainer places of Moabites, (And they pitched their tents there, from Bethjesimoth to Abelshittim, on the plains of Moab,)

Joshua 3:1Therefore Joshua rose by night, and moved thence the tents; and they went out of Shittim, and came to (the) Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel (or he and all the Israelites), and dwelled there three days.

Psalms 106:28And they made sacrifice to Baalpeor; and they ate the sacrifices of dead beasts. (And then they sacrificed to Baalpeor; and they ate the sacrifices offered to dead, or lifeless, gods.)

Hosea 9:10I found Israel as grapes in desert, I saw the fathers of them as the first apples of a fig tree, in the top thereof; but they entered to Baalpeor, and were aliened [away] in [to] confusion, and they were made abominable as those things which they loved. (I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw their forefathers like the first fruits of a fig tree, high on the top of it; but they turned to Baalpeor, and went their way in confusion, and they were made as abominable as those things which they loved.)

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 →

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