They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Parallel translations
- WEB They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
- BSB They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
- NKJV They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
- NASB ¶They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
- NLT Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
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Quick answer
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. It matters because they joined pagan idolatry and immorality.
Overview
At Peor, Israel worshiped Baal and joined in its corrupt rites (Numbers 25:1-3). 'Sacrifices of the dead' refers to offerings to lifeless idols or in pagan worship. This apostasy combined idolatry and immorality, provoking God's anger and showing how easily His people were drawn into false religion.
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- Hos 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.
- Num 25:1–3And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
- Num 25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
- Jer 10:8–10But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
- Deut 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.
- 1 Cor 10:19–20What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
- Deut 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.
- Rev 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.
- Num 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.
- Josh 22:17Is 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,
- Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
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