Numbers 25:1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

English Standard Version
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

New American Standard Bible
While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.

King James Bible
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

International Standard Version
While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women,

American Standard Version
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Darby Bible Translation
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.

Young's Literal Translation
And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

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;

Numbers 25:17
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Numbers 31:2
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered to your people.

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, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

Numbers 33:49
And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even to Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.

Deuteronomy 3:29
So we stayed in the valley over against Bethpeor.

Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.

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.

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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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).