Bilangan 22:40

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Balak mengorbankan beberapa ekor lembu sapi dan kambing domba dan mengirimkan sebagian kepada Bileam dan kepada pemuka-pemuka yang bersama-sama dengan dia.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Balak mengorbankan beberapa ekor lembu sapi dan kambing domba dan mengirimkan sebagian kepada Bileam dan kepada pemuka-pemuka yang bersama-sama dengan dia.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka disembelihkan Balak beberapa ekor lembu dan domba, lalu dipersilakannya Bileam dan segala penghulu yang sertanya.

Contextual Overview

³⁶ And when Balac heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meete hym, vnto a citie of Moab, whiche is in the border of Arnon, eue in the vtmost coast. ³⁷ And Balac sayd vnto Balaam: Dyd I not sende for thee to call thee? And wherfore camest thou not vnto me: Am I not able in deede to promote thee vnto honour? ³⁸ And Balaam made aunswere vnto Balac, Lo, I am come vnto thee, and can I nowe say any thyng at all? The worde that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speake. ³⁹ And Balaam went with Balac, and they came vnto a citie of streates. ⁴⁰ And Balac offered oxen and sheepe, and sent [thereof] to Balaam, and to the lordes that were with hym. ⁴¹ And on the morowe Balac toke Balaam, and brought hym vp into the hye places of Baal, that thence he might see the vtmost part of the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30, Genesis 31:54, Proverbs 1:16

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:35 - him that offereth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak offered oxen and sheep,.... Or "slew" w them, either for sacrifice; and if so Balak was the sacrificer, as it was common for kings to be priests; and then Balaam, who was sent for, was the prophet, that was to observe and explain any omen at the time of sacrificing, as Calchas did, when the chiefs of Greece sacrificed x: or rather for a feast, as the following words seem to show; though it might be for both, it being usual, when sacrifices were offered to idols, to eat part of them in a festival way, in imitation of the peace offerings of the Jews, see Numbers 25:2:

and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him; either part of it to them, or he sent for them to come, and partake of the feast, he and the princes of Moab and Midian, that had been to fetch him, and still attended him; and this the king did in a way of rejoicing, being glad that Balaam was come, and as expressing his well pleasedness with the conduct of the princes, and their success, as well as to keep Balaam in high spirits, hoping to have his end answered by him.

w ויזבח "cuinque occidisset", V. L. x Homer. Iliad. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 22:40. And Balak offered oxen, &c. — This was to gain the favour of his gods, and perhaps to propitiate Jehovah, that the end for which he had sent for Balaam might be accomplished.