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,
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And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. …
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. …
Your 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. …
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; …
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Here is, I. The pious care of the separated tribes to keep their hold of Canaan’s religion, even when they were leaving Canaan’s land, that they might not be as the sons of the stranger, utterly separated from God’s people , Isa. 56:3. In order to this, they built a great altar on the borders of Jordan, to be a witness for them that they were Israelites, and as such partakers of the altar of the L…
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