Numbers 25:2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

English Standard Version
These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

New American Standard Bible
For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

King James Bible
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

International Standard Version
who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods.

American Standard Version
for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

Darby Bible Translation
And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

Young's Literal Translation
and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,

Cross References

Exodus 22:20
He that sacrifices to any god, save to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one call you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

Deuteronomy 32:38
Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

Psalm 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Jeremiah 40:11
Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

25:1-5 The friendship of the wicked is more dangerous than their enmity; for none can prevail against God's people if they are not overcome by their inbred lusts; nor can any enchantment hurt them, but the enticements of worldly interests and pleasures. Here is the sin of Israel, to which they are enticed by the daughters of Moab and Midian. Those are our worst enemies who draw us to sin, for that is the greatest mischief any man can do us. Israel's sin did that which all Balaam's enchantments could not do; it set God against them. Diseases are the fruits of God's anger, and the just punishments of prevailing sins; one infection follows the other. Ringleaders in sin ought to be made examples of justice.

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CHAPTER 25

Nu 25:1-18. The Israelites' Whoredom and Idolatry with Moab.

1. Israel abode in Shittim—a verdant meadow, so called from a grove of acacia trees which lined the eastern side of the Jordan. (See Nu 33:49).