Psalms 106:28
They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
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- Hos 9:10 : 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.
- Deut 4:3 : 3 You have witnessed what the LORD did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.
- Deut 32:17 : 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.
- Josh 22:17 : 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.
- Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made. 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see, 6 ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell, 7 hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats. 8 Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
- Jer 10:8-9 : 8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! 9 Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers. 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
- 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything? 20 No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.
- Rev 2:14 : 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.
- Num 25:1-3 : 1 Israel’s Sin with the Moabite Women When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab. 2 These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.
- Num 25:5 : 5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”
- Num 31:16 : 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!
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- Num 25:2-32 verses78%
2These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.
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29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.
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16Look, 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!
- Ps 106:35-395 verses74%
35They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.
36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
37They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.
38They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
39They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
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27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.
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5So Moses said to the judges of Israel,“Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”
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18because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”
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6So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
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3You have witnessed what the LORD did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.
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30They were not yet filled up, their food was still in their mouths,
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4They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.
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17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.
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40And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
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18They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.
- Ps 106:18-203 verses68%
18Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked.
19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.
20They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
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10When 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.
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2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.
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15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
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2They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.
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17They 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.
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28I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.
- Judg 2:11-133 verses67%
11A Monotonous Cycle The Israelites did evil before the LORD by worshiping the Baals.
12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.
13They abandoned the LORD and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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2So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
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28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wastelands.
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2They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
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13They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.
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31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
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33They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
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8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
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11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.
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7So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written,“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”
8And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.
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22The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.
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18Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
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30So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
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33Israel Returns to Baal-Worship After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.
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3He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.
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3The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.
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7So they must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons, acting like prostitutes by going after them. This is to be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.