Baal Worship at Peor
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Now Israel remained in a Acacia Grove, and the b people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab.
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c They invited the people to d the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and e bowed down to their gods.
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So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and f the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.
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Then the LORD said to Moses, g "Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, h that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
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So Moses said to i the judges of Israel, j "Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor."
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And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, k who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
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Now l when Phinehas m the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand;
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and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So n the plague was o stopped among the children of Israel.
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And p those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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Numbers 33:49
They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the Abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 2:1
Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.
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Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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Joshua 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
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Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 32:38
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.
1 Corinthians 10:20
Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
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Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor, And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
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Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.
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Numbers 25:11
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.
Deuteronomy 13:17
So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers.
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers.
Deuteronomy 13:9
But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
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Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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Exodus 6:25
Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
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Psalms 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, And the plague was stopped.
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Numbers 16:46 - 48
So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun.
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Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.
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