Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, ¹  who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block ²  before the people ³  of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. ⁴ 

Nu 24:14; Nu 25:1-3; Nu 31:8,16; Jos 24:9; Isa 57:14; Jer 6:21; Eze 3:20; Eze 44:12; Mt 18:7; Ac 15:20,21,29; Ac 21:25; Ro 9:32; Ro 11:9; Ro 14:13,21; 1Co 1:23; 1Co 6:13-18; 1Co 7:2; 1Co 8:4-13; 1Co 8:9; 1Co 10:18-31; Heb 13:4; 1Pe 2:8; 2Pe 2:15; Jude 1:11; Re 2:4,20; Re 2:20; Re 21:8; Re 22:15

¹ sn See Num 22-24; 31:16.

² tn That is, a cause for sinning. An alternate translation is “who instructed Balak to cause the people of Israel to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols…”

³ tn Grk “sons,” but the expression υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραήλ (Juioi Israhl) is an idiom for the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (see L&N 11.58).

⁴ tn Due to the actual events in the OT (Num 22-24; 31:16), πορνεῦσαι (porneusai) is taken to mean “sexual immorality.” BDAG 854 s.v. πορνεύω 1 states, “engage in illicit sex, to fornicate, to whore…W. φαγεῖν εἰδωλόθυτα ‘eat meat offered to idols’ Rv 2:14, 20.”