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Douay-Rheims Bible

Numbers 22:2

And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Zippor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balak;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Moab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Balak;   Moabite;   Zippor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Balak;   Transjordan;   Zippor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Moab, Moabites;   Numbers, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zippor ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balak;   Midian;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zip'por;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;   Zippor;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Balak;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bemidbar Rabbah;   Hafṭarah;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Sidra;   Zippor;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Balak the son of Tzippor saw all that Yisra'el had done to the Amori.
King James Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Lexham English Bible
Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites,
English Standard Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
New Century Version
Balak son of Zippor saw everything the Israelites had done to the Amorites.
New English Translation
Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.
Amplified Bible
And Balak [the king of Moab] the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
New American Standard Bible
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Now Balak the sonne of Zippor sawe all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Contemporary English Version
When King Balak of Moab and his people heard how many Israelites there were and what they had done to the Amorites, he and the Moabites were terrified and panicked.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the people of Isra'el traveled on and camped in the plains of Mo'av beyond the Yarden River, opposite Yericho. Haftarah Hukkat: Shof'tim (Judges) 11:1–33 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Hukkat: Yochanan (John) 3:9–21; 4:3–30; 12:27–50 [In regular years read with Parashah 39, in leap years read separately] Now Balak the son of Tzippor saw all that Isra'el had done to the Emori.
Darby Translation
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Easy-to-Read Version
Balak son of Zippor saw everything the Israelites had done to the Amorites. The king of Moab was very frightened of the Israelites because there were so many of them. He was very afraid.
George Lamsa Translation
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Good News Translation
When the king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, heard what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how many Israelites there were,
Christian Standard Bible®
Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Literal Translation
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan Balac ye sonne of Ziphor sawe all that Israel had done vnto the Amorites,
American Standard Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Bible in Basic English
Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Balac the sonne of Ziphor, sawe all that Israel had done to ye Amorites.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
King James Version (1611)
And Balak the sonne of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when Balac son of Sepphor saw all that Israel did to the Amorite,
English Revised Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Berean Standard Bible
Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Balach, the sone of Sephor, siy alle thingis whiche Israel hadde do to Ammorrei,
Young's Literal Translation
And Balak son of Zippor seeth all that Israel hath done to the Amorite,
Update Bible Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
World English Bible
Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
New King James Version
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
New Living Translation
Balak son of Zippor, the Moabite king, had seen everything the Israelites did to the Amorites.
New Life Bible
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
New Revised Standard
Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Balak son of Zipper saw all that Israel had done unto the Amorites;
Revised Standard Version
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
THE MESSAGE
Balak son of Zippor learned of all that Israel had done to the Amorites. The people of Moab were in a total panic because of Israel. There were so many of them! They were terrorized.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

Contextual Overview

1 And they went forward and encamped in the plains of Moab, over against where Jericho is situate beyond the Jordan. 2 And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite, 3 And that the Moabites were in great fear of him, and were not able to sustain his assault, 4 He said to the elders of Madian: So will this people destroy all that dwell in our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the grass to the very roots. Now he was at that time king in Moab. 5 He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, a soothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me. 6 Come therefore, and curse this people, because it is mightier than I: if by any means I may beat them and drive them out of my land: for I know that he whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and he whom thou shalt curse is cursed. 7 And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac: 8 He answered: Tarry here this night and I will answer whatsoever the Lord shall say to me. And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said to him: 9 What mean these men that are with thee? 10 He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 21:3, Numbers 21:20-35, Judges 11:25

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:4 - And Balak

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
Genesis 21:12
And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
Genesis 22:10
And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
Genesis 22:12
And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
Genesis 22:16
By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:
Judges 11:31
Whosoever shall first come forth out of the doors of my house, and shall meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, the same will I offer a holocaust to the Lord.
Judges 11:39
And the two months being expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed, and she knew no man. From thence came a fashion in Israel, and a custom has been kept:
2 Kings 3:27
Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall: and there was great indignation in Israel, and presently they departed from him, and returned into their own country.
2 Chronicles 3:1
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount Moria, which had been shewn to David his father, in the place which David had prepared in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. The word "Amorites" being particularly pointed, shows, as Aben Ezra observes, that Sihon and Og are both meant, and that there were not among the kings of the land of Canaan any so great as they; wherefore when Balak, who was the present king of Moab, saw what Israel had done to them, that they had conquered them, and seized upon their kingdoms: he reasoned within himself, and said, as Jarchi represents him, that if they could not stand before Israel, much less could he and his people; and the rather, since those kings Israel had subdued were too powerful for the king of Moab, and had taken part of his country from him, and yet Israel was too strong for them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balak the son of Zippor - The comparison of Numbers 22:4 with Numbers 21:26 suggests that Balak was not the hereditary king but a Midianite, and that a change of dynasty had taken place. His father’s name, Zippor, “Bird,” reminds us of those of other Midianites, e. g., Oreb, “Crow,” Zeeb, “Wolf.” Possibly the Midianite chieftains had taken advantage of the weakness of the Moabites after the Amorite victories to establish themselves as princes in the land.


 
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