What does Numbers 25:2 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Psalms 106:28

  They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

• Exodus 34:15

  lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

• 1 Corinthians 10:20

  But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

• Joshua 22:17

  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,

• Exodus 23:24

  Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

• 2 Corinthians 6:16

  And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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