Treasury of Scripture
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Numbers 25:1-9 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit prostitution with the daughters of Moab...
Numbers 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor...
Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day...
Psalm 106:28,29 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead...
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time...
for all the men It appears from this appeal, that the pestilence, as well as the sword of the magistrated, singled out the guilty persons and spared the rest (PS
91:6-8) The legislator, in order to deter the Jews from idolatry, alludes to this fact, but he notices no circumstance but one, which, though in the original narrative was not stated, was infinitely the most important to advert to on this occasion; but which no persons, but spectators to the fact, and perfectly acquainted with every individual concerned in it, could possibly feel the truth of.