Psalms 106:29

29 They made the Lord angry by what they did, so many people became sick with a terrible disease.

Psalms 106:29 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions
Sin is an invention of man's: when our first parents sinned, they found out many inventions; and their posterity ever since have been inventors of evil things; and man's invention is very quick at that work. All false doctrine and false worship are of men's finding out; all idolatrous practices are their inventions, and which are here intended; see ( Psalms 106:39 ) . And these are very provoking to God, who is jealous of his glory, and which is taken from him hereby; and even when he forgives such sins of men, he takes vengeance on their inventions, as in this case, ( Psalms 99:8 ) . For it follows:

and the plague brake in upon them:
like an inundation of water, and carried off four and twenty thousand persons, ( Numbers 25:9 ) .

Psalms 106:29 In-Context

27 He said their children would be killed by other nations and that they would be scattered among other countries.

28 They joined in worshiping Baal at Peor and ate meat that had been sacrificed to lifeless statues.

29 They made the Lord angry by what they did, so many people became sick with a terrible disease.

30 But Phinehas prayed to the Lord, and the disease stopped.

31 Phinehas did what was right, and it will be remembered from now on.