Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Bible References

Joined

Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit lewdness with the daughters of Moab.
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD, in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods which they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, 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, although 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 first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit lewdness.

Of the dead

Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold; the work of men's hands.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
1 Corinthians 10:19
What then do I say? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?