Baal-peor

Baal-peor was, he says, the sun exercising his powers of fecundity.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

In the coming future day Pergamos will be in a special manner the seat (or throne) of Satan (ii. 13; and compare xiii. 2), and a form of idolatry more awful than that of Baal-peor will be on the earth.

Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

"They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead."

Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908

When Israel fell away from God and joined the Moabites in the worship of Baal-peor, the record says of the nature of the service:

Our Day In the Light of Prophecy William Ambrose Spicer 1908

House of Peor; i.e., "temple of Baal-peor", a place in Moab, on the east of Jordan, opposite Jericho.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Heb. kubbah (Num. 25: 8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

The same of Baal-peor: Deuteronomy iv. 3 agrees with JE

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

The sons of Simeon -- It is supposed that this tribe had been pre-eminent in the guilt of Baal-peor and had consequently been greatly reduced in numbers.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Baal-peor -- that is, the possessor of Peor, the mountain on which

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor ... the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you -- It appears that the pestilence and the sword of justice overtook only the guilty in that affair (Nu 25: 1-9) while the rest of the people were spared.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871