Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor - The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others, have Belphegor; the Syriac and Arabic, the idol Phegor, or Phaaur; the ain in the word being pronounced as gh.
Ate the sacrifices or the dead - methim , of dead men. Most of the heathen idols were seen, who had been deified after their death; many of whom had been execrated during their life.
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