Peor: The Mountain and God of the Moabites
Peor was the name of a mountain in the land of Moab. It is significant as the final place that the prophet Balaam visited when he was being pressured by the king of Moab to curse Israel. The Israelites had recently conquered Si...
Are curses real? What the Bible says about cursing
When people talk about “cursing” they usually mean “bad words” or “foul language,” but that understanding is a modern one. In the ancient world, a curse was a very specific thing, something you did to someone in the sense of “p...