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Numbers 23:29 Commentaries: Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."
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align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/23.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/numbers/23.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/numbers/23.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/numbers/23.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/numbers/23.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/numbers/23.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/numbers/23.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/23.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/numbers/23.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a 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Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/numbers/23.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>23:11-30 Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessing; and this blessing is both larger and stronger than the former. Men change their minds, and break their words; but God never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. And when in Scripture he is said to repent, it does not mean any change of his mind; but only a change of his way. There was sin in Jacob, and God saw it; but there was not such as might provoke him to give them up to ruin. If the Lord sees that we trust in his mercy, and accept of his salvation; that we indulge no secret lust, and continue not in rebellion, but endeavour to serve and glorify him; we may be sure that he looks upon us as accepted in Christ, that our sins are all pardoned. Oh the wonders of providence and grace, the wonders of redeeming love, of pardoning mercy, of the new-creating Spirit! Balak had no hope of ruining Israel, and Balaam showed that he had more reason to fear being ruined by them. Since Balaam cannot say what he would have him, Balak wished him to say nothing. But though there are many devices in man's heart, God's counsels shall stand. Yet they resolve to make another attempt, though they had no promise on which to build their hopes. Let us, who have a promise that the vision at the end shall speak and not lie, continue earnest in prayer, Lu 18:1.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/numbers/23.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The position of Peor northward from Pisgah, along the Abarim heights, is approximately determined by the extant notices of Beth-peor.<p>Jeshimon - was the waste, in the great valley below, where stood Beth-jeshimoth, "the house of the wastes." <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/numbers/23.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>28. Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor—or, Beth-peor (De 3:29), the eminence on which a temple of Baal stood.<p>that looketh toward Jeshimon—the desert tract in the south of Palestine, on both sides of the Dead Sea. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/numbers/23.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/numbers/23.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Balaam said unto Balak,.... Being willing to try again what could be done, and to gratify the king, and especially to get the wages of unrighteousness, if possible, which he dearly loved, as the apostle says, <a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm">2 Peter 2:15</a>. <p>build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams; which had been done in two places before, <a href="/numbers/23-1.htm">Numbers 23:1</a> the same sort of creatures, and the same number here as there, and these only clean creatures, such as were used in sacrifice by the true worshippers of God, and which, no doubt, Balaam had knowledge of, and therefore judged that those would be most acceptable to the Lord. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/numbers/23.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Numbers 23:29<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/numbers/23.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>He takes the seer "to the top of Peor, which looks over the face of the desert" (Jeshimon: see at <a href="/numbers/21-20.htm">Numbers 21:20</a>), and therefore was nearer to the camp of the Israelites. Mount Peor was one peak of the northern part of the mountains of Abarim by the town of Beth-peor, which afterwards belonged to the Reubenites (<a href="/joshua/13-20.htm">Joshua 13:20</a>), and opposite to which the Israelites were encamped in the steppes of Moab (<a href="/deuteronomy/3-29.htm">Deuteronomy 3:29</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/4-46.htm">Deuteronomy 4:46</a>). According to Eusebius (Onom. s. v. Φογώρ), Peor was above Libias (i.e., Bethharam),<p>(Note: Ὑυπέρκειται δὲ τῆς νῦν Λιβαίδος καλουμένης. Jerome has "in supercilio Libiados.")<p>which was situated in the valley of the Jordan; and according to the account given under Araboth Moab, <p>(Note: Καὶ ἔστι τόπος εἰς δεῦρο δεικνύμενος παρὰ τῷ ὄρει Φογώρ ὁ παράκειται ἀνιόντων ἀπὸ Λιβίαδος ἐπὶ Ἐσσεβοὺς (i.e., Heshbon) τῆς Ἀραβίας ἀντικρὺ Ἰεριχώ.)<p>it was close by the Arboth Moab, opposite to Jericho, on the way from Libias to Heshbon. Peor was about seven Roman miles from Heshbon, according to the account given s. v. Danaba; and Beth-peor (s. v. Bethphozor) was near Mount Peor, opposite to Jericho, six Roman miles higher than Libias, i.e., to the east of it (see Hengstenberg, Balaam, p. 538).<p><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29-30</a><p>The sacrifices offered in preparation for this fresh transaction were the same as in the former cases (<a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/23-14.htm">Numbers 23:14</a>, and <a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/23-1.htm">Numbers 23:1</a>, <a href="/numbers/23-2.htm">Numbers 23:2</a>). <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/numbers/23-29.htm">Numbers 23:29 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-ATF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-300x250-ATF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-BTF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-300x250-BTF --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br /> <!-- /1078254/BH-728x90-BTF2 --> <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../numbers/23-28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 23:28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 23:28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/23-30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 23:30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 23:30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>