Numbers 25:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men had sex with Moabite women.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He had the buildings torn down where the male prostitutes lived next to the temple, and where the women wove sacred robes for the idol of Asherah.

Psalm 106:28

Your people became followers of a god named Baal-Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Exodus 22:19

Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal.

Exodus 34:15

Don't make treaties with the people there, or you will soon find yourselves worshipping their gods and taking part in their sacrificial meals.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

Here is what I discovered: a bad woman is worse than death. She is a trap, reaching out with body and soul to catch you. But if you obey God, you can escape. If you don't obey, you are done for.

Jeremiah 40:11

Earlier, when the Babylonians had invaded Judah, many of the Jews escaped to Moab, Ammon, Edom, and several other countries. But these Jews heard that the king of Babylonia had appointed Gedaliah as ruler of Judah, and that only a few people were left there. So the Jews in these other countries came back to Judah and helped with the grape and fruit harvest, which was especially large that year.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children also rebelled against me. They refused to obey my laws and teachings, and they treated the Sabbath as any other day. I became angry and decided to punish them in the desert.

Hosea 9:10

Israel, when I, the LORD, found you long ago it was like finding grapes in a barren desert or tender young figs. Then you worshipped Baal-Peor, that disgusting idol, and you became as disgusting as the idol you loved.

Micah 6:5

Don't forget the evil plans of King Balak of Moab or what Balaam son of Beor said to him. Remember how I, the LORD, saved you many times on your way from Acacia to Gilgal.

Numbers 25:17

“The Midianites are now enemies of Israel, so attack and defeat them! They tricked the people of Israel into worshipping their god at Peor, and they are responsible for the death of Cozbi, the daughter of one of their own leaders.”

Numbers 31:2

“Before you die, make sure that the Midianites are punished for what they did to Israel.”

Numbers 33:49

Their camp stretched from Beth-Jeshimoth to Acacia.

1 Corinthians 10:8

Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about twenty-three thousand of them died. Don't do shameful things as they did.

Deuteronomy 3:29

After this we stayed in the valley at Beth-Peor.

Deuteronomy 32:38

You offered them wine and your best sacrifices. Can't those gods help you now or give you protection?

Deuteronomy 4:3

You saw how he killed everyone who worshipped the god Baal-Peor.

Joshua 2:1

Joshua chose two men as spies and sent them from their camp at Acacia with these instructions: “Go across the river and find out as much as you can about the whole region, especially about the town of Jericho.” The two spies left the Israelite camp at Acacia and went to Jericho, where they decided to spend the night at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.

Joshua 22:17

Wasn't our people's sin at Peor terrible enough for you? The LORD punished us by sending a horrible sickness that killed many of us, and we still suffer because of that sin.

Joshua 3:1

Early the next morning, Joshua and the Israelites packed up and left Acacia. They went to the River Jordan and camped there that night.

Revelation 2:14

I do have a few things against you. Some of you are following the teaching of Balaam. Long ago he told Balak to teach the people of Israel to eat food that had been offered to idols and to be immoral.