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Re: God's righteousness
Just a real quick note:
The incident at Baal-Peor involving Balaam and Balak is, in my estimation, the most grievous and spiritually wounding episode in the cultural history of Biblical Israel.
Not only is it given to us in Numbers, it is then addressed by Moses in Deuteronomy, brought up again in Joshua, then later in Nehemiah, then Micah as you have shown, but is also brought up in Hosea and is in the Psalms, not to mention 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation.
So, this one incident had almost everlasting repercussions and became the symbol of the worst act of idolatry ever committed by Israel, to the point that even thousands of years later, prophets, psalmists, apostles, and even Jesus, use it in their writings or speech.
Additionally, the consequences that Moses instituted at Baal-Peor are probably the worst ever given by him against Israel, for any national-level sin committed. What was it? 1,000 men beheaded, crucified on trees and left to rot in the blistering sun, not counting the plague that God then himself brought about to slay 23,000.
And yet, Micah writes this was the righteousness of the LORD. And it was. Divine recompense against wickedness is always righteous.
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