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Young's Literal Translation

Numbers 22:2

And Balak son of Zippor seeth all that Israel hath done to the Amorite,

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,
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;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing all that Israel had done to the Amorrhite,
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 the sons of Israel journey and encamp in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan, [by] Jericho. 2 And Balak son of Zippor seeth all that Israel hath done to the Amorite, 3 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, 4 and Moab saith unto the elders of Midian, `Now doth the assembly lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the green thing of the field.' And Balak son of Zippor [is] king of Moab at that time, 5 and he sendeth messengers unto Balaam son of Beor, to Pethor, which [is] by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, `Lo, a people hath come out of Egypt; lo, it hath covered the eye of the land, and it is abiding over-against me; 6 and now, come, I pray thee, curse for me this people, for it [is] mightier than I; it may be I prevail -- we smite it -- and I cast it out from the land; for I have known -- that which thou blessest is blessed, and that which thou cursest is cursed.' 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian go, and divinations in their hand, and they come in unto Balaam, and speak unto him the words of Balak, 8 and he saith unto them, `Lodge here to-night, and I have brought you back word, as Jehovah speaketh unto me;' and the princes of Moab abide with Balaam. 9 And God cometh in unto Balaam, and saith, `Who [are] these men with thee?' 10 And Balaam saith unto God, `Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto 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 saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.
Genesis 21:12
and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.
Genesis 22:9
And they come in unto the place of which God hath spoken to him, and there Abraham buildeth the altar, and arrangeth the wood, and bindeth Isaac his son, and placeth him upon the altar above the wood;
Genesis 22:10
and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife -- to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:12
and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'
Genesis 22:16
and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --
Judges 11:31
then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon -- it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it -- a burnt-offering.'
Judges 11:39
and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:
2 Kings 3:27
and he taketh his son, the first-born who reigneth in his stead, and causeth him to ascend -- a burnt-offering on the wall, and there is great wrath against Israel, and they journey from off him, and turn back to the land.
2 Chronicles 3:1
And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor 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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