Numbers 22:3

Bible in Basic English

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Mo'av was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Mo'av was distressed because of the children of Yisra'el.

King James Version
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Lexham English Bible
and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people because they were numerous; and Moab dreaded the presence of the Israelites.

English Standard Version
And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.

New Century Version
And Moab was scared of so many Israelites; truly, Moab was terrified by them.

New English Translation
And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.

Amplified Bible
So Moab was terrified because of the people, for they were numerous. Moab was overcome with fear because of the sons of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Moabites were sore afraide of the people, because they were many, and Moab fretted against the children of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
Mo'av was very afraid of the people, because there were so many of them; Mo'av was overcome with dread because of the people of Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And Moab was much afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
And the Moabites were in great fear of the people because they were many; and Moab was distressed at the presence of the children of Israel.

Good News Translation
he and all his people became terrified.

Christian Standard Bible®
Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and Moab dreaded the Israelites.

Literal Translation
And Moab greatly feared because of the people, for it was many. And Moab was vexed by the presence of the sons of Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that the Moabites were sore afrayed of the people (yt was so greate) and that the Moabites stode in feare of the children of Israel,

American Standard Version
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Moabites were sore afrayde of the people, because they were many, and they were stroken with feare of the chyldren of Israel.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was overcome with dread because of the children of Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many, and Moab was distressed, because of the children of Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then Moab feared the people exceedingly because they were many; and Moab was grieved before the face of the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and that men of Moab `hadden dred Israel, and miyten not bere the assailing of him.

Young's Literal Translation
and Moab is exceedingly afraid of the presence of the people, for it [is] numerous; and Moab is vexed by the presence of the sons of Israel,

Update Bible Version
And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moab was greatly afraid of the people, because they [were] many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

World English Bible
Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

New King James Version
And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

New Living Translation
And when the people of Moab saw how many Israelites there were, they were terrified.

New Life Bible
So Moab was filled with much fear because of the people, for they were many. Moab was very afraid of the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard
Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were so numerous; Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Moab shrank with great fear from the presence of the people because, many, they were, - and Moab was alarmed at the presence of the sons of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to sustain his assault,

Revised Standard Version
And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many; Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho. ² Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites. ³ And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel. ⁴ Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab. ⁵ So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me: ⁶ Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed. ⁷ So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say. ⁸ And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night. ⁹ And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you? ¹⁰ And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 15:15, Deuteronomy 2:25, Joshua 2:10, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 2:24, Joshua 9:24, Psalms 53:5, Isaiah 23:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:4 - they shall Nehemiah 2:10 - it grieved Nehemiah 13:2 - hired Balaam Habakkuk 3:7 - saw the

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 22:3
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

Genesis 22:4
And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

Genesis 22:17
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

Psalms 119:60
I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Matthew 10:37
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

Luke 14:26
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moab was sore afraid of the people,.... Lest they should enter into their country and do to them as they had done to Sihon and Og, and their countries; on this account the king of Moab, his nobles, and the people of the land, were in an exceeding great panic, which was a fulfilling of the prophecy of Moses in Exodus 15:15:

because they were many the number of them taken a little after in this place, where they now were, in the plains of Moab, even after 24,000 had died of the plague, was 601,730, Numbers 25:9:

and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel; though they had no reason for it, had they considered their relation to them, being the descendants of Abraham, the uncle of Lot, whose posterity they were; and that the Israelites had done them service in delivering them from such bad neighbours, who had taken much of their country from them, and were doubtless making continual encroachments on them; and especially had they known the orders the Israelites had from the Lord not to distress them, nor contend with them in battle, Deuteronomy 2:9, but this they were ignorant of, and being of a different religion from the Israelites, had them in abhorrence, or loathed them, as the word signifies; though the meaning rather seems to be, that they had a nausea, a loathing in their stomachs, and could not eat their food, because of the dread of the Israelites that was upon them; or they were weary of their lives, as Jarchi interprets it, and as the word is used,

Genesis 27:46.