Numbers 25:2

New American Bible - revised edition

These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:18

But I will spare seven thousand in Israel—every knee that has not bent to Baal, every mouth that has not kissed him.

Psalm 106:28

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

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 22:20

You shall not oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens residing in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:24

Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

Exodus 32:6

Early the next day the people sacrificed burnt offerings and brought communion sacrifices. Then they sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

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.

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.

1 Corinthians 10:20

No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.

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!

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 23:16

If you transgress the covenant of the Lord, your God, which he enjoined on you, to go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”

Joshua 23:7

or mingling with these nations that survive among you. You must not invoke their gods by name, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them,

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.