Psalms 106:28

They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. It matters because they joined pagan idolatry and immorality.

Cross-references · 11

• Hos 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
• Num 25:1–3Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
• Num 25:5Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
• Jer 10:8–10But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
• Deut 4:3Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.
• 1 Cor 10:19–20What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
• Deut 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
• Num 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
• Josh 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

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