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Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
30Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
31That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.
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The plague breaks into an account of worship at Baal Peor, making the connection between Israel’s deeds and God’s anger stark and hard to read.
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1 Corinthians 10:8Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.Both recall wrongdoing among God’s people with deadly consequences; Corinthians uses that history to warn against sexual immorality.
Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; …Both connect a plague among the people with God’s anger; Numbers also records Moses directing Aaron to make atonement.
1 Kings 14:9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me …Both accounts connect worship of other gods with deeds that provoke God to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:16–21They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.Both describe God’s people provoking him to anger through their involvement with other gods.
Ecclesiastes 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made mankind upright; but they search for many inventions.”Both concern human conduct before God; Ecclesiastes describes human schemes, while the psalm names deeds that provoke his anger.
Numbers 16:47Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for …Both describe a plague among the people; Numbers adds Aaron’s act of atonement after the plague had begun.
1 Kings 22:53He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.Both link worship of Baal with provoking the God of Israel to anger.
Psalm 106:39Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.Both name the people’s deeds as the problem, describing the anger those deeds provoke and the defilement they bring.
Romans 1:21–24Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.Both describe people turning from God with grave consequences: a plague in the psalm and darkened hearts in Romans.
Psalm 99:8You answered them, LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.Both describe God judging people for their deeds; Psalm 99 also speaks of his forgiveness.
Numbers 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.Both record the plague, with Numbers stating the death toll and the psalm naming the deeds that provoked God’s anger.
Psalm 106:43He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.Both connect the people’s wrongdoing with suffering; the later verse also recounts God’s repeated rescues.
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This account names a specific judgment at Baal Peor. It gives no warrant to label someone’s illness as punishment; God does not treat worship of other gods as harmless.
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