And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, which were by the house of Jehovah, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.
Numbers 25:1 - Modern King James Version And Israel lived in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate 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 sodomites, which were by the house of Jehovah, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah.
And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead,
lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and 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 like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Also when all the Jews in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and 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;
But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, nor kept My judgments to do them; the judgments which, if a man do, he shall even live in them; they profaned My sabbaths and I said I would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.
O My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab planned, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.
Avenge the sons of Israel from the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
And they pitched by Jordan, from The House of Deserts to The Meadow of Acacias in the plains of Moab.
one young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year for a burnt offering;
Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be your hiding place.
Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor. For Jehovah your God has destroyed from among you all the men that followed Baal-peor.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go look over the land, even Jericho. And they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab. And they stayed there.
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not been made clean until today? Yea, a plague came on the congregation of Jehovah!
And Joshua rose early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.