Topic
Baal-peor
8 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Numbers 25:3Easton · Nave An idol of Moab
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
- Numbers 25:5Easton · Nave An idol of Moab
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
- Deuteronomy 4:3Easton · Nave An idol of Moab
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
- Psalms 106:28Easton · Nave An idol of Moab
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
- Hosea 9:10Easton · Nave An idol of Moab
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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
- Numbers 25:18Easton
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.
- Numbers 31:16Easton
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
- Joshua 22:17Easton
Is 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,
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 9 references
Lord of the opening, a god of the Moabites (Num. 25:3; 31:16; Josh. 22:17), worshipped by obscene rites. So called from Mount Peor, where this worship was celebrated, the Baal of Peor. The Israelites fell into the worship of this idol (Num. 25:3, 5, 18; Deut. 4:3; Ps. 106:28; Hos. 9:10).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
ba-al-pe'-or. See BAAL. (1).
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.