Peor
Where Peor sits on the map, and the 8 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Khirbet Ayun Musa
- Coordinates
- 31.7770, 35.7385
- Mentions
- 8 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
8 verses, in biblical order.
Numbers
- Numbers 23:28
And when he had led him on to the top of mount Peor, which looks out toward the wilderness,
- Numbers 25:3
And Israel was initiated into Baal of Peor. And so the Lord, being angry,
- Numbers 25:5
And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Let each one kill his neighbors, who have been initiated into Baal of Peor.”
- Numbers 25:18
for they, too, have behaved with hostility against you, and they have deceived you insidiously by means of the idol Peor, and by Cozbi, the daughter of a commander of Midian, their sister, who was struck down in the day of the scourge because of the sacrilege of Peor.”
- Numbers 31:16
Are not these the ones who deceived the sons of Israel at the suggestion of Balaam, and who caused you betray the Lord by the sin of Peor, because of which the people also were struck down?
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen all that the Lord has done against Baal-peor, in what manner he has crushed all of his worshippers from among you.
Joshua
- Joshua 22:17
Is it a small thing to you that you have sinned with Baal of Peor, and that the stain of that crime continues among us, even to the present day? And many of the people have fallen.
Psalms
- Psalms 106:28
And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress.