Psalms 106:29
27 to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
30 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
31 It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- KJV
- Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
- WEB
- Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
- ASV
- Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.
- DARBY
- And they provoked [him] to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
- BLB
- And they provoked [Him] to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- ÅB
- og de vakte harme ved sine gjerninger, og en plage brøt inn iblant dem.
- OTB
- Så vakte de hans vrede med sine gjerninger,
og en plage brøt ut blant dem. - B1930
- og de vakte harme ved sine gjerninger, og en plage brøt inn iblandt dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:16–21
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:29
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
Read in contextPsalms 106:39
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Read in contextPsalms 99:8
O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
Read in contextRomans 1:21–24
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Read in contextNumbers 25:9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
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