And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the idol pole.
Numbers 25:1 - King James 2000 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition ISRAEL SETTLED down and remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab, American Standard Version (1901) And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab: Common English Bible When the Israelites lived at Shittim, the people made themselves impure by having illicit sex with Moabite women. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Israel, at that time, dwelt in Shittim, and the people were fornicating with the daughters of Moab, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Israel at that time abode in Settim: and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab. |
And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the idol pole.
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices to the dead.
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go play the harlot after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call you, and you eat of his sacrifice;
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
Yet the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live by them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and they became abominations like the thing they loved.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered unto your people.
And they encamped by the Jordan, from Bethjeshimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
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.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.