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 fornicate with the daughters of Moab,
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the sons of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor for which there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor; for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God has destroyed them from among you.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came from nearby, whom your fathers feared not.
Joshua 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, for which there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the early fruit of the fig tree in her beginning; but they went in unto Baalpeor and separated themselves unto shame and made themselves as abominable as that which they loved.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto 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 shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What do I say then? that the idol is anything or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?