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/mstc'>Nu 25:3,5,18; De 4:3; Ps 106:28; Ho 9:10).
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and Israel coupled himself unto Baal-Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel,
and Israel coupled himself unto Baal-Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel,
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor."
for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee, which they have beguiled you, through Peor and through their sister Cozbi the daughter of a lord in Midian, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD by the reason of Peor: and there followed a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.
Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?
They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.
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 went in against his brethren, and joined himself to a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.