Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 25:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
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25:3 Baal of Peor might refer to Chemosh (21:29) by a different name, but probably Baal (“lord”), the Canaanite god, was included on the list of deities honored by the Moabites. Numerous place-names were formed with this deity’s name (e.g., Baal-gad, Baal-hermon, Baal-meon, Baal-peor), representing shrines for local manifestations of Baal. Peor was a mountain from which Balaam could see the Israelite camp in the plains of Moab; the mountain and the related shrine of Beth-peor (23:28; 25:3, 5, 18; 31:16; Deut 3:29; 4:3, 46; 34:6; Josh 13:20; 22:17) were somewhere in the vicinity of Mount Nebo. • Israel’s idolatry caused the Lord’s anger to blaze against his people; this included a plague (Num 25:8-9; 26:1; cp. 11:1, 10; 12:9).

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