• “Flee From Sexual Immorality!”
    “Keep Yourselves in God’s Love”

    •  3. To what extent did Balaam’s scheme succeed?

      3 Did this strategy work? To an extent, yes. Tens of thousands of Israelite men took the lure by committing “sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.” They even began to worship Moabite gods, including the disgusting Baal of Peor, a god of fertility, or sex. As a result, 24,000 Israelites perished right at the border of the Promised Land. What a monumental tragedy that was!​—Numbers 25:1-9.

  • “Flee From Sexual Immorality!”
    “Keep Yourselves in God’s Love”

    •  4. Why did thousands of Israelites fall prey to immorality?

      4 What paved the way for this calamity? Many of the people had developed a wicked heart by drawing away from Jehovah, the very God who had delivered them from Egypt, fed them in the wilderness, and led them safely to the land of promise. (Hebrews 3:12) Reflecting on the matter, the apostle Paul wrote: “Neither let us practice sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, only to fall, 23,000 of them in one day.”a​—1 Corinthians 10:8.