Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Joined
Of the dead
Bible References
Joined
Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
Joshua 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
Of the dead
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?