Numbers 22:1, Balak’s first message for Balaam is refused; Numbers 22:15, His second message obtains him; Numbers 22:22, An angel would have slain him, if he had not been saved by his ass; Numbers 22:36, Balak entertains him.
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Numbers 22 — OverviewNumbers 22 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleAt this chapter begins the famous story of Balak and Balaam, their
attempt to curse Israel, and the baffling of that attempt; God's people
are long afterwards told to remember what Balak the king of Moab…Numbers 22 — OverviewNumbers 22 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe children of Israel being come into the plains of Moab, put the king of Moab into a panic, who expressed his fears to the elders of Midian, Nu 22:1 and sent for Balaam the soothsayer to curse the people of Israel,…Numbers 22:1-14Numbers 22:1-14 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the
wilderness, out of which they went up (ch. xxi. 18), and are now
encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till
they…Numbers 22:1-40Numbers 22:1-40 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITION
THE COMING OF BALAAM (Numbers 22:2-40).Numbers 22:1Numbers 22:1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgethe children: Numbers 21:20, Numbers 33:48-50, Numbers 36:13; Deuteronomy 34:1, Deuteronomy 34:8
on this side: Numbers 32:19, Numbers 34:15; Deuteronomy 1:5, Deuteronomy 3:8; Joshua 3:16Numbers 22:2Numbers 22:2 · The Pulpit CommentaryBalak the son of Zippor. The name Balak is connected with a word "to make waste," and "Zippor" is a small bird. Balak was, as is presently explained, the king of Moab at this time, but not the king from whom Sihon had…