Your [a]eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal Peor, for all the men that followed Baal Peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed every one from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:3 God’s judgments executed upon other idolaters ought to serve for our instruction, read Num. 25:3,4.

You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor.(A) The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

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17 Have we too little for the wickedness (A)of Peor, whereof we are not [a]cleansed unto this day, though a plague came upon the Congregation of the Lord?

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:17 Meaning, God is not fully pacified, forasmuch as no punishment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry.

17 Was not the sin of Peor(A) enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the Lord!

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