Psalms 106:28

Verse Psalms 106:28. They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor] The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others, have Belphegor; the Syriac and Arabic, the idol Phegor, or Phaaur; the ע ain in the word being pronounced as gh.

Ate the sacrifices or the dead] מתים methim, of dead men. Most of the heathen idols were men, who had been deified after their death; many of whom had been execrated during their life.