
Text -- Psalms 106:28 (NET)




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Wesley -> Psa 106:28
Wesley: Psa 106:28 - -- They had communion with him, as God's people have with God in acts of his worship.
They had communion with him, as God's people have with God in acts of his worship.
JFB: Psa 106:28-30 - -- 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,
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,

JFB: Psa 106:28-30 - -- 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 encam...
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.
Clarke -> Psa 106:28; Psa 106:28
Clarke: Psa 106:28 - -- They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor - The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others, have Belphegor; the Syriac and Arabic, the idol Phegor, or Phaaur; ...
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor - The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others, have Belphegor; the Syriac and Arabic, the idol Phegor, or Phaaur; the

Clarke: Psa 106:28 - -- Ate the sacrifices or the dead - מתים methim , of dead men. Most of the heathen idols were seen, who had been deified after their death; many o...
Ate the sacrifices or the dead -
Calvin -> Psa 106:28
Calvin: Psa 106:28 - -- 28.And they joined themselves to Baal-peor The prophet tells us that the Jews, after they had been threatened with very awful punishment, very soon f...
28.And they joined themselves to Baal-peor The prophet tells us that the Jews, after they had been threatened with very awful punishment, very soon fell into a new species of apostasy. Some think, that they are indirectly accused of falling away to the superstitions of the Midianites, in consequence of having been imposed upon by female intrigue. This, it is well known, was the design of Balaam, as soon as he knew that he was forbidden by God to curse the people. His counsel to king Balak was to set the daughters of Moab before the people, to entice them by their allurements to the practice of idolatry,
“Behold, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor.” Num 31:16
And as the idolatry here mentioned originated from carnal intrigues, some expositors are of opinion, that on this account the prophet charges the people with the commission of a twofold trespass, in their not only being inveigled by the Midianitish women, but also in binding themselves by another bond to Baal-peor, (Num 25:0) Be that as it may, the prophet exclaims against the perfidy of his own nation, because in forsaking the true worship of God, they had broken that holy union by which they had been betrothed to him. For we know, that as God adopts the Church as his spouse, when she gives herself up to idolatry, she no less shamefully violates her fidelity, than when a wife leaves her husband, and becomes an adulteress. It is well known, that Baal-peor was the idol of the Midianites; but it is not so well known how he received this appellation. The word
TSK -> Psa 106:28
TSK: Psa 106:28 - -- joined : Num 25:1-3, Num 25:5, Num 31:16; Deu 4:3, Deu 32:17; Jos 22:17; Hos 9:10; Rev 2:14
of the dead : The word maithim signifies dead men; for ...
joined : Num 25:1-3, Num 25:5, Num 31:16; Deu 4:3, Deu 32:17; Jos 22:17; Hos 9:10; Rev 2:14
of the dead : The word

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Barnes -> Psa 106:28
Barnes: Psa 106:28 - -- They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor - They joined in their devotions, or, they shared in the rites of idolatrous worship. This occurred ...
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor - They joined in their devotions, or, they shared in the rites of idolatrous worship. This occurred when they were in the regions of Moab, and on the very borders of the promised land. Num. 25. Many other instances of a similar kind are passed over by the psalmist, and this seems to have been selected because of its special aggravation, and to show the general character of the nation. Even after their long-continued enjoyment of the favor and protection of God - after he had conducted them safely through the wilderness - after he had brought them to the very border of the land of Canaan, and all his promises were about to be fulfilled, they still showed a disposition to depart from God. Baal-peor was an idol of the Moabites, in whose worship females prostituted themselves. Gesenius, Lexicon. Compare Num 25:1-3. Baal was the name of the idol; Peor was the name of a mountain in Moab, where the idol was worshipped.
And ate the sacrifices of the dead - Of false gods, represented as "dead"or having no life, in contradistinction from the true and "living God."They ate the sacrifices offered to those idols; that is, they participated in their worship. Num 25:2.
Poole -> Psa 106:28
Poole: Psa 106:28 - -- They joined themselves to wit, in worship, whereby they had a union and communion with him, as God’ s people have with God in acts of his worshi...
They joined themselves to wit, in worship, whereby they had a union and communion with him, as God’ s people have with God in acts of his worship. And this phrase seems also to note their carnal copulation with
the daughters of Moab in the temple, or to the honour of Baal-peor.
The sacrifices of the dead which were offered to idols, which he calls dead, in opposition to the true and living God, and by way of contempt, and to note the sottishness of idolaters, who worshipped lifeless things, as stocks and stones, or dead men. And some learned men conceive that this is spoken with particular regard to Baal-peor, or the lord of Peor , a place so called, who had been a person of great eminency in those parts, and therefore was worshipped, according to the custom of the heathens, after his death, by sacrifices and feasts appointed for his honour and memory.
Gill -> Psa 106:28
Gill: Psa 106:28 - -- They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol...
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol in many countries; wherefore, to distinguish one from another, an additional name was used. Baalzephon was the god of the Egyptians; Baalzebub the god of the Ekronites; and here Baalpeor the god of the Moabites: for the fact referred to was committed when the children of Israel were on the borders of Moab, and when Balak sent for Balaam to curse them; who at last advised him to draw them to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab; who might then prevail upon them to commit idolatry, which would bring the wrath of God upon them. And in this he succeeded. The above idol had its name of Peor either from the obscene actions done in the worship of it, too filthy to be related, and which, it is thought, are referred to in Hos 9:10. It seems to be the Priapus of the Heathens. Or, as others, from a mountain of this name, where was the house or temple in which it was worshipped: hence we read of Mount Peor, and of Bethpeor, Num 23:28. So Suidas t says, Baal is Saturn, and Peor the place where he was worshipped. Or else from some great man of this name, Lord Peor; who being of great fame and note among the Moabites, for some extraordinary things done by him, was deified and worshipped after his death; as was common among the Heathens. To this idol the Israelites joined or "yoked" themselves, as the word u signifies: they withdrew themselves from the yoke of the true God, whose yoke is easy, and put their necks under the yoke of an idol; which was to be unequally yoked: or they were tempted unto it; they committed spiritual whoredom with it, which is idolatry; they left their first and lawful husband, to whom they were married, and joined themselves to an idol, and cleaved to it. The phrase is expressive of their fellowship with it, and with the idolatrous worshippers of it; they devoted and gave up themselves to the worship of it; just as the true worshippers of God are said to join themselves to him, Jer 50:6, they were, as the Septuagint renders it, initiated into the rites and mysteries of this idol.
And ate the sacrifices of the dead; which were offered up to this lifeless statue. So idols are called the dead, in opposition to and distinction from the living God, Isa 8:19. Or they partook of the feasts which were kept in honour of their dead deified hero, Lord Peor; see the history in Num 25:1. These were sacrifices offered to the Stygian Jupiter, or Pluto, called by the Phoenicians Mot w, the same with Chemosh, the god of the Moabites; and who also was Baalpeor, according to Jerom x.

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NET Notes: Psa 106:28 Here “the dead” may refer to deceased ancestors (see Deut 26:14). Another option is to understand the term as a derogatory reference to th...
Geneva Bible -> Psa 106:28
Geneva Bible: Psa 106:28 They joined themselves also unto ( o ) Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the ( p ) dead.
( o ) Which was the idol of the Moabites.
( p ) Sacrifice...

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 106:1-48
TSK Synopsis: Psa 106:1-48 - --1 The psalmist exhorts to praise God.4 He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers.7 The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy....
MHCC -> Psa 106:13-33
MHCC: Psa 106:13-33 - --Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even ...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 106:13-33
Matthew Henry: Psa 106:13-33 - -- This is an abridgment of the history of Israel's provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and th...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 106:24-33
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 106:24-33 - --
The fact to which the poet refers in Psa 106:24, viz., the rebellion in consequence of the report of the spies, which he brings forward as the fourt...
Constable: Psa 90:1--106:48 - --IV. Book 4: chs. 90--106
Moses composed one of the psalms in this section of the Psalter (Ps. 90). David wrote t...

Constable: Psa 106:1-48 - --Psalm 106
This psalm recalls Israel's unfaithfulness to God. Psalm 105 stressed God's faithfulness to th...
