KJV King James Version
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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Psalm 106:28
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
WEB World English Bible
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
ASV American Standard Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
Surrounding context — Psalm 106
25 But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.
31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
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Numbers 25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.Numbers 25:1-3And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.Jeremiah 10:8-10But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.1 Corinthians 10:19-20What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?Revelation 2:14But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.Deuteronomy 32:17They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.Psalm 115:4-8Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.Numbers 31:16Behold, 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.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,
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