the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 106:28
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Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They joined in worshiping Baal at Peor and ate meat that had been sacrificed to lifeless statues.
They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
And thei maden sacrifice to Belfagor; and thei eeten the sacrificis of deed beestis.
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Your people became followers of a god named Baal Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
Now they joined themselves to Ba‘al-P‘or and ate meat sacrificed to dead things.
And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
At Baal Peor they joined in worshiping Baal and ate sacrifices to honor the dead.
They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They ioyned themselues also vnto Baal-Peor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They joined themselves to Baal of Peor and ate gifts given to the dead.
Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
They ioyned themselues also vnto Baalpeor, and did eate the offrings of the dead.
They worshipped also the idols of Baal-peor, and ate sacrifices offered for the dead.
Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.
Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal-peor, - and did eat sacrifices to the dead:
(105-28) They also were initiated to Beelpheor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Then they attached themselves to the Ba'al of Pe'or, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;
They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor: they also did eate of the sacrifices of the dead.
They were joined also to Beelphegor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked him with their devices;
They aligned themselves with Baal of Peorand ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
They joined themselves also to Ba`al-Pe`or, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
They also were joined to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the ones who died;
And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,
They ioyned them selues vnto Baal Peor, and ate the offeringes of the deed.
Then they linked up with Baal Peor, attending funeral banquets and eating idol food. That made God so angry that a plague spread through their ranks; Phinehas stood up and pled their case and the plague was stopped. This was counted to his credit; his descendants will never forget it.
They also followed Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
They then joined themselves to Baal‑peor,And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
joined: Numbers 25:1-3, Numbers 25:5, Numbers 31:16, Deuteronomy 4:3, Deuteronomy 32:17, Joshua 22:17, Hosea 9:10, Revelation 2:14
of the dead: The word maithim signifies dead men; for the idols of the heathen were generally men - warriors, kings, or lawgivers - who had been deified after their death; though many of them had been execrated during their life. Psalms 115:4-8, Jeremiah 10:8-10, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:20
Reciprocal: Exodus 34:15 - eat Numbers 25:2 - they called Numbers 25:3 - joined Numbers 35:33 - it defileth Deuteronomy 26:14 - the dead Isaiah 8:19 - for the living Isaiah 26:14 - dead Ezekiel 2:3 - rebelled Ezekiel 22:9 - they eat Daniel 1:8 - defile Malachi 2:11 - profaned
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol in many countries; wherefore, to distinguish one from another, an additional name was used. Baalzephon was the god of the Egyptians; Baalzebub the god of the Ekronites; and here Baalpeor the god of the Moabites: for the fact referred to was committed when the children of Israel were on the borders of Moab, and when Balak sent for Balaam to curse them; who at last advised him to draw them to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab; who might then prevail upon them to commit idolatry, which would bring the wrath of God upon them. And in this he succeeded. The above idol had its name of Peor either from the obscene actions done in the worship of it, too filthy to be related, and which, it is thought, are referred to in Hosea 9:10. It seems to be the Priapus of the Heathens. Or, as others, from a mountain of this name, where was the house or temple in which it was worshipped: hence we read of Mount Peor, and of Bethpeor,
Numbers 23:28. So Suidas t says, Baal is Saturn, and Peor the place where he was worshipped. Or else from some great man of this name, Lord Peor; who being of great fame and note among the Moabites, for some extraordinary things done by him, was deified and worshipped after his death; as was common among the Heathens. To this idol the Israelites joined or "yoked" themselves, as the word u signifies: they withdrew themselves from the yoke of the true God, whose yoke is easy, and put their necks under the yoke of an idol; which was to be unequally yoked: or they were tempted unto it; they committed spiritual whoredom with it, which is idolatry; they left their first and lawful husband, to whom they were married, and joined themselves to an idol, and cleaved to it. The phrase is expressive of their fellowship with it, and with the idolatrous worshippers of it; they devoted and gave up themselves to the worship of it; just as the true worshippers of God are said to join themselves to him, Jeremiah 50:6, they were, as the Septuagint renders it, initiated into the rites and mysteries of this idol.
And ate the sacrifices of the dead; which were offered up to this lifeless statue. So idols are called the dead, in opposition to and distinction from the living God, Isaiah 8:19. Or they partook of the feasts which were kept in honour of their dead deified hero, Lord Peor; see the history in Numbers 25:1. These were sacrifices offered to the Stygian Jupiter, or Pluto, called by the Phoenicians Mot w, the same with Chemosh, the god of the Moabites; and who also was Baalpeor, according to Jerom x.
t In voce βεελφεγωρ. u יצמדו "conjugati sunt", Vatablus; "subdiderunt sese jugo", Gejerus. w Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 38. Vid. Castell. Annot. Samar. p. 13. in vol. 6. Lond. Polyglott. x Comment. in Esaiam, fol. 26. H.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor - They joined in their devotions, or, they shared in the rites of idolatrous worship. This occurred when they were in the regions of Moab, and on the very borders of the promised land. Numbers 25:0. Many other instances of a similar kind are passed over by the psalmist, and this seems to have been selected because of its special aggravation, and to show the general character of the nation. Even after their long-continued enjoyment of the favor and protection of God - after he had conducted them safely through the wilderness - after he had brought them to the very border of the land of Canaan, and all his promises were about to be fulfilled, they still showed a disposition to depart from God. Baal-peor was an idol of the Moabites, in whose worship females prostituted themselves. Gesenius, Lexicon. Compare Numbers 25:1-3. Baal was the name of the idol; Peor was the name of a mountain in Moab, where the idol was worshipped.
And ate the sacrifices of the dead - Of false gods, represented as “dead” or having no life, in contradistinction from the true and “living God.” They ate the sacrifices offered to those idols; that is, they participated in their worship. Numbers 25:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 106:28. They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor — The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others, have Belphegor; the Syriac and Arabic, the idol Phegor, or Phaaur; the ע ain in the word being pronounced as gh.
Ate the sacrifices or the dead — מתים methim, of dead men. Most of the heathen idols were men, who had been deified after their death; many of whom had been execrated during their life.
