Numbers 25:3

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Summary

Numbers 25:3

And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Joined

Hosea 9:10

The anger

General references

Deuteronomy 3:29

Proverbs 5:14

Bible References

Joined

And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor."

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.

Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

The anger

Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies.

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

Ye shall be cast out also from the heritage, that I gave you. And I will subdue you under the heavy bondage of your enemies, in a land that ye know not. For ye have ministered fire to my indignation, which shall burn evermore."

General references

And so we abode in the valley beside Bethpeor.

I am come almost into all misfortune, in the midst of the multitude and congregation."