Psalm 106:28 They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

◄ Psalm 106:28 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods;

English Standard Version
Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

New American Standard Bible
They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

King James Bible
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

International Standard Version
For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

American Standard Version
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Darby Bible Translation
And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

Young's Literal Translation
And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

Cross References

Numbers 25:2
And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Numbers 25:3
And Israel joined himself to Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

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.

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: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

106:13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God showed his displeasure for this. He filled them with uneasiness of mind, terror of conscience, and self-reproach. Many that fare deliciously every day, and whose bodies are healthful, have leanness in their souls: no love to God, no thankfulness, no appetite for the Bread of life, and then the soul must be lean. Those wretchedly forget themselves, that feast their bodies and starve their souls. Even the true believer will see abundant cause to say, It is of the Lord's mercies that I am not consumed. Often have we set up idols in our hearts, cleaved to some forbidden object; so that if a greater than Moses had not stood to turn away the anger of the Lord, we should have been destroyed. If God dealt severely with Moses for unadvised words, what do those deserve who speak many proud and wicked words? It is just in God to remove those relations that are blessings to us, when we are peevish and provoking to them, and grieve their spirits.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

28-30. sacrifices of the dead—that is, of lifeless idols, contrasted with "the living God" (Jer 10:3-10; compare Ps 115:4-7; 1Co 12:2). On the words,

joined themselves to Baal-peor—see Nu 25:2, 3, 5.

Baal-peor—that is, the possessor of Peor, the mountain on which Chemosh, the idol of Moab, was worshipped, and at the foot of which Israel at the time lay encamped (Nu 23:28). The name never occurs except in connection with that locality and that circumstance.