“Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:”
Moreover, they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. Israel's idolatry continues after the golden calf, now through attachment to 'Baal of Peor' (a fertility deity, Numbers 25). The eating of 'sacrifices offered to the dead' involves participation in pagan religious meals, further compromising covenant distinction. This verse portrays idolatry as an ongoing problem, not a single incident.
Church Fathers on Psalms 106:26
1. This Psalm also has the title Allelujah prefixed to it: and this twice. But some say, that one Allelujah belongs to the end of the former Psalm, the other to the beginning of this. And they assert, that all the Psalms bearing this title have Allelujah at the end, but not all at the beginning; so that they will not allow any Psalm which has not Allelujah at the end, to have it at the beginning; supposing that what seems to belong to the commencement, really belongs to the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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