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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Psalms 106:28 - 106:28
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sacrifices of the dead - that is, of lifeless idols, contrasted with “the living God” (Jer 10:3-10; compare Psa 115:4-7; 1Co 12:2). On the words,
joined themselves to Baal-peor - see Num 25:2, Num 25:3, Num 25:5.
Baal-peor - that is, the possessor of Peor, the mountain on which Chemosh, the idol of Moab, was worshipped, and at the foot of which Israel at the time lay encamped (Num 23:28). The name never occurs except in connection with that locality and that circumstance.