Bible Topics for Kids
BAAL-PEOR, An idol of Moab
Numbers 25:3-5
3. Israel joined himself to Baal Peor. The LORD's anger burned against Israel.
4. The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
5. Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor."
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,and became abominable like that which they loved.