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
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
Numbers 31:16
It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
Joshua 22:17
Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
Of the dead
Psalm 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
1 Corinthians 10:19
Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?