Numbers 25:1

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While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He broke down the houses of the male temple prostitutes that were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.

Psalm 106:28

Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

Exodus 22:19

Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

Exodus 34:15

You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 40:11

Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan as governor over them,

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.

Micah 6:5

O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”

Numbers 25:17

“Harass the Midianites, and defeat them;

Numbers 31:2

“Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

Numbers 33:49

they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Numbers 7:15

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

1 Corinthians 10:8

We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in 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 and help you, let them be your protection!

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did with regard to the Baal of Peor—how the Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and spent the night there.

Joshua 22:17

Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which a plague came upon the congregation of the Lord,

Joshua 3:1

Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim with all the Israelites, and they came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing over.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice fornication.