Psalm 106:16-31
In their camp some of them became jealous of Moses and Aaron.
Aaron had been set apart to serve the Lord.
The ground opened up and swallowed Dathan.
It buried Abiram and his followers.
Fire blazed among all of them.
Flames destroyed those evil people.
At Mount Horeb they made a metal statue of a bull calf.
They worshiped that statue of a god.
They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a bull that eats grass.
They forgot the God who saved them.
They forgot the God who had done great things in Egypt.
They forgot the miracles he did in the land of Ham.
They forgot the wonderful things he did by the Red Sea.
So he said he would destroy them.
But Moses, his chosen one,
stood up for them.
He kept God’s anger from destroying them.
Later on, they refused to enter the pleasant land of Canaan.
They didn’t believe God’s promise.
In their tents they told the Lord how unhappy they were.
They didn’t obey him.
So he lifted up his hand and promised
that he would make them die in the desert.
He promised he would scatter their children’s children among the nations.
He would make them die in other lands.
They joined in worshiping the Baal that was worshiped at Peor.
They ate food that had been offered to gods that aren’t even alive.
Their evil ways made the Lord angry.
So a plague broke out among them.
But Phinehas stood up and took action.
Then the plague stopped.
What Phinehas did made him right with the Lord.
It will be remembered for all time to come.
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