Numbers 25:1
And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,
Young's Literal Translation
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 34:15'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,
Numbers 31:15And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?
Numbers 33:49And they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-Jeshimoth, unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 3:1And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.
Psalms 106:28And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
Hosea 9:10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They — they have gone in [to] Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.
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 →