Baal-peor is one of the foreign gods of Moab. When the Israelites were staying in Shittim during the Exodus, Moabite women came and enticed them, leading to sexual immorality and bowing down to Baal-peor.
Numbers 25:1for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.Numbers 25:2Israel) joined himself to Baal Peor, and Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel.Numbers 25:3Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”
Numbers 25:4Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”Numbers 25:5Behold, one of the children of Israel) came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.Numbers 25:6When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.Numbers 25:7He went after the man of Israel)) into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.Numbers 25:8Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Psalms 106:28Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.Psalms 106:29Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
호세아(선지자)도 이 사실을 들어 다시한번 이스라엘 백성들을 책망했다.
Hosea 9:10As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.