Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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Passages linked to Numbers 23:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 23:14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
- Numbers 23:30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For among the Gentiles the kings oft times used…
For among the Gentiles the kings oft times used to sacrifice, as did the Priests.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken;…
Num 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
Ver. 2. And Balak did.] Ready to conform to any religion, so he might obtain his purposes. God abhors these lukewarm neuter passives, that are inter coelum terramque penduli, that halt between two, that commit idolatry between the porch and the altar, with those five and twenty miscreants. {Eze 8:16}
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Balak by procuring them and Balaam by offering them;…
Balak by procuring them and Balaam by offering them; through in ancient times kings’ were priests also, and so might perform a priestly work, as this was.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Balak did as Balaam had spoken,.... Ordered seven…
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken,.... Ordered seven altars to be built, and prepared seven bullocks and rams for sacrifice:
and Balak and Balsam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram; both seem to be concerned in offering the sacrifices; Balak, though a king, it being usual for kings to be priests also, as Melchizedek was, and Balaam as a prophet; and these sacrifices were offered to the true God, as seems clear from Num 23:4 and to which Balak, at the direction of Balaam, agreed, in order to gain the Lord on his side, that he might prevail over the people of Israel.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Altar. They both join in sacrificing to Chamos or…
Altar. They both join in sacrificing to Chamos or the devil, whom Balaam styles his lord, Yehovah: but the true God was pleased to hinder the idol from interfering at present, and answered Balaam, in order that he might see the folly of his conduct and repent; and that others, who were more willing to listen to him, than to the servants of God, might be instructed by his declaration. (Haydock) --- "God’s voice is heard sounding from a profane mouth." (St. Jerome, de 42. mans.) (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) And Balak and Balaam offered.—It is more probable…
(2) And Balak and Balaam offered.—It is more probable that Balak, as a king, performed priestly functions than that Balaam performed them alone. (See Note on Num_22:40.)
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.