The location of the temple of Baal-Peor.
About Baal-peor
A moabite god worshiped on Mount Peor.
This god was probably Chemosh, the national deity of Moab. While camped in Shittim, the Israelites were seduced by Moabite women who persuaded them to worship “Baal of Peor” (Numbers 25:3). For their idolatry, God struck Israel with a plague that killed 24,000 people (Numbers 25:9; Psalm 106:28–31). Baal-peor is also the name of the place where Israel worshiped “the Baal of Peor” (Deuteronomy 4:3).
Key References
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
All Scripture References (8)
Numbers (5)
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
Deuteronomy (1)
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
Joshua (1)
Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD.
Psalms (1)
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.