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
When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 31:16
Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor -- which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!
Deuteronomy 4:3
You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.
Joshua 22:17
The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.
Hosea 9:10
When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame -- they became as detestable as what they loved.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
Of the dead
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.
Jeremiah 10:8
The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
1 Corinthians 10:19
Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?