Numbers 25:1

New American Bible - revised edition

While Israel was living at Shittim, the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes in the house of the Lord, where the women wove garments for the Asherah.

Psalm 106:28

They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to the dead.

Exodus 22:19

Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord alone, shall be put under the ban.

Exodus 34:15

Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land; else, when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to them, one of them may invite you and you may partake of the sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

More bitter than death I find the woman who is a hunter’s trap, whose heart is a snare, whose hands are prison bonds. The one who pleases God will be delivered from her, but the one who displeases will be entrapped by her.

Jeremiah 40:11

Then all the Judahites in Moab, in Ammon, in Edom, and those in all other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had set over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.

Ezekiel 20:21

But their children rebelled against me: they did not follow my statutes or keep my ordinances that bring life to those who observe them; my sabbaths they desecrated. Then I considered pouring out my fury on them, spending my anger against them in the wilderness;

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen, I looked on your ancestors. But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.

Micah 6:5

My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him. Recall the passage from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the Lord.

Numbers 25:17

Treat the Midianites as enemies and strike them,

Numbers 31:2

Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites, and then you will be gathered to your people.

Numbers 33:49

They camped by the Jordan on the plains of Moab extended from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim. Conquest and Division of Canaan.

Numbers 7:15

one bull from the herd, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a burnt offering;

1 Corinthians 10:8

Let us not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single day.

Deuteronomy 3:29

So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

Deuteronomy 32:38

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up now and help you! Let them be your protection!

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have seen with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal-peor: the Lord, your God, destroyed from your midst everyone who followed the Baal of Peor;

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua, son of Nun, secretly sent out two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the land and Jericho.” When the two reached Jericho, they went into the house of a prostitute named Rahab, where they lodged.

Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor not enough, by which we made ourselves impure, even to this day, and a plague came upon the community of the Lord?

Joshua 3:1

Early the next morning, Joshua and all the Israelites moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, where they stayed before crossing over.

Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.