I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.
a המה באו "ingressi sunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Drusius. b Annotations on Numb. xxv. 3. c Racenatensis in Capito, apud Drusium in loc. d T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 28. 4. e Perush in Numb. xxv. 3. f Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 45. p. 477. g Origin. l. 8. c. 11. p. 70. h De Dis Syris, Syntagma 1. c. 5. p. 162, 163. See Cumberland's Sanchoniatho, p. 73, &c.