28. They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor. Ritualism led on to the adoration of false gods. If we choose a false
way of worship we shall, ere long, choose to worship a false god. This
abomination of the Moabites was an idol in whose worship women gave up their
bodies to the most shameless lust. Think of the people of a holy God coming
down to this. And ate the sacrifices of the dead. In the orgies with
which the Baalites celebrated their detestable worship Israel joined, partaking
even in their sacrifices as earnest inner-court worshipers, though the gods
were but dead idols.
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