THEOSISJoshua 22:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.
הַמְעַט־לָ֙נוּ֙ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן פְּע֔וֹר אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־הִטַּהַ֙רְנוּ֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ עַ֖ד הַיּ֣וֹם הַזֶּ֑ה וַיְהִ֥י הַנֶּ֖גֶף בַּעֲדַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 106 (105):28
- Ps 106 (105):29
- Num 25:1And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,
- Num 25:18Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.
- Deut 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.
- Deut 4:4But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.
- 1 Cor 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- 1 Cor 10:11Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.