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Bilangan 22:7

Lalu berangkatlah para tua-tua Moab dan para tua-tua Midian dengan membawa di tangannya upah penenung; setelah mereka sampai kepada Bileam, disampaikanlah kepadanya pesan Balak.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Government;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divination;   Earthly;   Magic;   Reward;   Reward-Punishment;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Divination;   Midianites;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Midian;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Age, Old (the Aged);   Elder;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Midianite;   Moab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Avith;   Balaam;   Epistle;   Midian;   Zalmunna;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Transjordan;   Wages;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Government;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Moab, Moabites;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Soothsaying;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elders;   Midian, Midianites ;   Zippor ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balak;   Midian;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elder;   Moab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elder;   Magic, Magicians;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Midian;   Sinai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Divination;   Elder;   Hafṭarah;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;   Korah;   Midian and Midianites;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berangkatlah para tua-tua Moab dan para tua-tua Midian dengan membawa di tangannya upah penenung; setelah mereka sampai kepada Bileam, disampaikanlah kepadanya pesan Balak.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka segala tua-tua Moab dan segala tua-tua Midianpun pergilah, maka upah petenung adalah di tangannya, lalu datanglah mereka itu kepada Bileam, disampaikannyalah segala titah Balak itu kepadanya.

Contextual Overview

1 And the children of Israel departed and pitched in the fieldes of Moab, on the other side of Iordane from Iericho. 2 And Balac the sonne of Ziphor, sawe all that Israel had done to ye Amorites. 3 And the Moabites were sore afrayde of the people, because they were many, and they were stroken with feare of the chyldren of Israel. 4 And Moab sayde vnto the elders of Madian: Nowe shall this companie lycke vp all that are rounde about vs, as an oxe licketh vp the grasse of ye fielde. And Balac the sonne of Ziphor, was kyng of the Moabites at that tyme. 5 He sent messengers therefore vnto Balaam the sonne of Beor to Pethor, which is by the riuer of the lande of the chyldren of his folke, to call him, saying: Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and beholde they couer the face of the earth, & dwell ouer against me. 6 Come nowe therfore I pray thee, and curse me this people, for they are to mightie for me, so peraduenture I myght be able to smyte them, & to driue them out of the lande: For I wote that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and whom thou cursest is cursed. 7 And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Madian departed, hauyng the [rewarde] of the southsaying in their hande: And they came vnto Balaam, and tolde hym the wordes of Balac. 8 He aunswered them: Tary here this nyght, and I wyll bryng you worde, euen as the Lorde shall say vnto me. And the lordes of Moab abode with Balaam. 9 And God came vnto Balaam, and sayd: What men are these with thee? 10 And Balaam sayd vnto God: Balac the sonne of Ziphor kyng of Moab hath sent vnto me [saying:]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rewards of divination: 1 Samuel 9:7, 1 Samuel 9:8, Isaiah 56:11, Ezekiel 13:19, Micah 3:11, Romans 16:18, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, Titus 1:11, 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:4 - elders Numbers 22:15 - princes Numbers 22:19 - General Deuteronomy 23:4 - because they hired Judges 16:18 - brought money 1 Kings 11:18 - Midian 2 Kings 5:5 - and took Daniel 2:6 - ye shall Daniel 5:7 - be clothed Acts 1:18 - with

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter
Genesis 22:2
And he saide: take thy sonne, thyne onlye sonne Isahac whom thou louest, & get thee vnto the lande Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines which I wyl shewe thee.
Genesis 22:4
The thirde day Abraham lyft vp his eyes, and sawe the place a farre of:
Exodus 12:3
Speake ye vnto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth daye of this moneth, euery man take vnto hym a lambe according to ye house of the fathers, a lambe throughout euery house.
Matthew 26:39
And he went a litle farther, and fell flat on his face, and prayed, saying: O my father, if it be possible, let this cuppe passe from me: Neuerthelesse, not as I wyll, but as thou wylt.
Matthew 26:42
He went away once againe, & prayed, saying: O my father, if this cuppe may not passe away fro me, except I drinke it, thy wyll be fulfylled.
John 18:11
Therefore sayth Iesus vnto Peter, Put vp thy sworde into the sheathe: shall I not drynke of the cuppe whiche my father hath geuen me?
Romans 8:15
For ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne to feare: but ye haue receaued the spirite of adoption, wherby we cry, Abba, father.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Midian, departed,.... By which it appears that they were princes and nobles; for such the elders were, that were sent on this errand to Balaam; and that they were some of both people, Midian and Moab, that went upon it, see

Numbers 22:14 which shows, that if they were not one people, under one king, which yet seems likely, nevertheless they made a common cause of it, and joined in this expedient to save their country:

with the rewards of divination in their hands; not that diviners were sent along with them to Balsam, as Aben Ezra interprets it, that he might not deceive them, and put them off, by saying it was not a fit and proper day or hour to go out and curse, which these men would be able to refute; but if they were skilled in the art of divination as well as he, what need was there to send to him, when they had such at hand? nor instruments of divination, as Jarchi, which so famous a soothsayer could not be thought to be without; but, as we rightly render it, the rewards of divination, which were either fixed or left to the generosity of those that had recourse to such persons, and were presents which they brought them, in order to engage them to use the utmost of their art for them; and this sense is confirmed by the Apostles Peter and Jude, see 2 Peter 2:15:

and they came unto Balaam; at Pethor:

and spake unto him the words of Balak: told him the errand they were sent on to him by the king of Moab.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rewards of divination - Rightly interpreted in 2 Peter 2:15 as “the wages of unrighteousness.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 22:7. The rewards of divination — Whoever went to consult a prophet took with him a present, as it was on such gratuitous offerings the prophets lived; but here more than a mere present is intended, perhaps every thing necessary to provide materials for the incantation. The drugs, c., used on such occasions were often very expensive. It appears that Balaam was very covetous, and that he loved the wages of unrighteousness, and probably lived by it see 2 Peter 2:15.


 
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