Joshua 22:17 Cross References

Joshua 22:17

17: Was our sin at Peor not enough? We are not yet fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire assembly of the LORD.

You saw what the LORD did to you at Baal-peor, where the LORD your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped the god Baal of Peor.
But all of you who were faithful to the LORD your God are still alive today.

Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
They angered the LORD with all these things, so a plague broke out among them.

While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves by sleeping with the local Moabite women.
These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab.
Before long Israel was joining in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze against his people.
The LORD issued the following command to Moses: "Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel."
So Moses ordered Israel's judges to execute everyone who had joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.

And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

"Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
But now we are again breaking your commands and intermarrying with people who do these detestable things. Surely your anger will destroy us until even this little remnant no longer survives.

All these events happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us, who live at the time when this age is drawing to a close.

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