Psalms 106:29

"They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead."

Key Reflection

This verse describes a significant departure from covenant loyalty, where the Israelites engaged in idolatry by joining with the Moabite women at Baal Peor and participating in their rituals, including consuming sacrifices associated with the dead. Such practices were seen as profaning God's covenant and symbolized spiritual defilement and apostasy.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions -The word rendered “inventions” means properly “works; deeds;” then it is used in the sense of “evil” deeds, crimes. And the plague brake in upon them -SeeNumbers 25:8-9. No less than twenty-four thousand fell in the plague.Numbers 25:9.

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