Bilangan 22:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi Balak mengutus pula pemuka-pemuka lebih banyak dan lebih terhormat dari yang pertama.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi Balak mengutus pula pemuka-pemuka lebih banyak dan lebih terhormat dari yang pertama.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kembali pula disuruhkan Balak beberapa penghulu, lebih banyak dan lebih mulia dari pada yang dahulu itu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And Balac sent againe a greater companie of lordes, and more honourable then they. ¹⁶ Whiche came to Balaam, and tolde hym, Thus sayeth Balac the sonne of Ziphor: Oh let nothyng let thee, but come vnto me: ¹⁷ For I wyll greatly promote thee vnto great honour, and wyll do whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me: come I pray thee, curse this people for my sake. ¹⁸ And Balaam aunswered and said vnto the seruauntes of Balac: If Balac woulde geue me his house full of syluer and golde, I can not go beyonde the worde of the Lorde my God, to do lesse or more: ¹⁹ Nowe therefore I pray thee, tarie ye here this nyght, that I may wit what the Lorde wyll say vnto me more. ²⁰ And God came vnto Balaam by night, and sayde vnto hym: If the men come to call thee, ryse vp and go with them: but loke what I say vnto thee, that shalt thou do. ²¹ And Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, & went with the lordes of Moab.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

princes: Numbers 22:7, Numbers 22:8, Acts 10:7, Acts 10:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:19 - honourable

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak sent yet again princes more, and more honourable than they. More in number, and greater in quality, princes of the first rank in his court; supposing that Balaam thought he was not treated with respect enough, they being princes of the meaner sort, and but few, that were sent unto him before, which he imagined was the reason, at least one reason, why he refused to come with them; persons of Balaam's character in those days being highly revered.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balak, like the ancient pagan world generally, not only believed in the efficacy of the curses and incantations of the soothsayers, but regarded their services as strictly venal. Hence, when his first offer was declined, he infers at once that he had not bid high enough.