Reference: Baal-peor
Easton
lord of the opening, a god of the Moabites (Nu 25:3; 31:16; Jos 22:17), worshipped by obscene rites. So called from Mount Peor, where this worship was celebrated, the Baal of Peor. The Israelites fell into the worship of this idol (5/3/type/kj2000'>Nu 25:3,5,18; De 4:3; Ps 106:28; Ho 9:10).
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And Israel joined itself unto Baal of Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
And Israel joined itself unto Baal of Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay you every one his men that were joined unto Baal of Peor.
For they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was slain in the day of the plague on account of Peor.
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.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
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,
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices to the dead.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and they became abominations like the thing they loved.
Hastings
The local deity of Mt. Peor (De 4:3 b, Nu 25:6). In De 4:3 b and Ho 9:10 it is perhaps the name of a place.
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And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and they became abominations like the thing they loved.