Rev 2:14 | NET2full | STEP | But I have a few things against you : You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam , who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality .

‏ Revelation of John 2:14

14 But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, ^{▼▼sn See Num 22-24; 31:16.} who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block ^{▼▼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…”} before the people ^{▼▼tn Grk “sons,” but the expression υἱοὶ ᾿Ισραήλ (huioi Israēl) is an idiom for the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (see L&N 11.58).} of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. ^{▼▼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.”}