Moses Challenges Israel to Learn from the Example of Baal-Peor 3

3 You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, 4 but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.




Deu 4:3
You saw with your . . . eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor—At Baal Peor, Israel sinned by committing both sexual and spiritual immorality with the women of Moab. Moses warned the people of Israel that if they rejected God now as they did back then, the result would be the same. Many would die in the judgment of the Lord.

The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed . . . Baal . . . Peor—24,000 persons died on that account; which being a recent thing, fresh in memory, and what they were eyewitnesses of, was a caution to them to avoid the same sins, as it is to us on whom the ends of the world are come, Num 23:9.

Guzik, David. "Study Guide for Deuteronomy 4." Enduring Word. Blue Letter Bible. 7 Jul 2006. 2010. 18 Jul 2010.
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