Bible Cross References
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Numbers 25:1-9
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When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.
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These women invited them to sacrificial feasts, where the god of Moab was worshiped. The Israelites ate the food and worshiped the god
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Baal of Peor. So the LORD was angry with them
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and said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of Israel and, in obedience to me, execute them in broad daylight, and then I will no longer be angry with the people."
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Moses said to the officials, "Each of you is to kill every man in your tribe who has become a worshiper of Baal of Peor."
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One of the Israelites took a Midianite woman into his tent in the sight of Moses and the whole community, while they were mourning at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence.
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When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up and left the assembly. He took a spear,
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followed the man and the woman into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them. In this way the epidemic that was destroying Israel was stopped,
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but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
Numbers 31:16
Remember that it was the women who followed Balaam's instructions and at Peor led the people to be unfaithful to the LORD. That was what brought the epidemic on the LORD's people.
Joshua 22:17
Remember our sin at Peor, when the LORD punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Wasn't that sin enough?
Psalm 106:28
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
Psalm 106:29
They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.
Hosea 9:10
The LORD says, "When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved.
for all the men
Numbers 26:64
There was not even one man left among those whom Moses and Aaron had listed in the first census in the Sinai Desert.