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28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. …
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.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)This is an abridgment of the history of Israel’s provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition , that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and…
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