Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
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Gill's Exposition
But that you must turn away this day from following the Lord?.... From the worship of the Lord, as the Targum, and so on Jos 22:16; not content with the former transgression, but must add this revolt…
Barnes' Notes
From which we are not cleansed until this day - Phinehas, who had borne a conspicuous part in vindicating the cause of God against those who fell away to Baal-peor, means that terrible as the…
Adam Clarke
Is the iniquity of Peor too little - See this history, Num 25:3 (note), etc., and the notes there. Phinehas takes it for granted that this altar was built in opposition to the altar of God erected by…
Cambridge Bible
the iniquity of Peor i. e. of Baal Peor. In four passages Peor occurs as a contraction for Baal Peor, (a) Num 25:18, twice; (b) Num 31:16; and (c) in this place. He makes allusion to the apostasy in…
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