Bilangan 23:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sesudah itu berkatalah Bileam kepada Balak: "Berdirilah di samping korban bakaranmu, tetapi aku ini hendak pergi; mungkin TUHAN akan datang menemui aku, dan perkataan apapun yang dinyatakan-Nya kepadaku, akan kuberitahukan kepadamu." Lalu pergilah ia ke atas sebuah bukit yang gundul.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sesudah itu berkatalah Bileam kepada Balak: "Berdirilah di samping korban bakaranmu, tetapi aku ini hendak pergi; mungkin TUHAN akan datang menemui aku, dan perkataan apapun yang dinyatakan-Nya kepadaku, akan kuberitahukan kepadamu." Lalu pergilah ia ke atas sebuah bukit yang gundul.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah Bileam kepada Balak: Tuanku apalah berdiri hampir dengan korban bakaran tuanku, maka patik hendak pergi, barangkali patik bertemu dengan Tuhan, maka firman yang akan dinyatakan-Nya kepada patik, ia itu patik sampaikan kelak kepada tuanku. Hata, maka pergilah ia ke tempat yang tinggi.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Balaam said vnto Balac: Buylde me here seuen aulters, & prepare me here seuen oxen & seuen rammes. ² And Balac dyd as Balaam sayde: And Balac and Balaam offred on euery aulter an oxe and a ramme. ³ And Balaam said vnto Balac: Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go, if happly the Lorde will meete me: and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyll tell thee. And he went vp hyer. ⁴ But God met Balaam, & [Balaam] sayd vnto hym: I haue prepared seuen aulters, and haue offred vpon euery aulter an oxe and a ramme. ⁵ And the Lorde put a saying in Balaams mouth, and sayde: Go agayne to Balac, and say on this wyse. ⁶ And when he went agayne vnto him, lo, he stoode by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the lordes of Moab. ⁷ And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, [saying] Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel. ⁸ Howe shall I curse hym, whom God hath not cursed? or howe shall I defie hym, whom God hath not defied? ⁹ For from the toppe of the rockes I see hym, and from the hylles I beholde hym: lo, the people shall dwell by them selues, and shal not be reckened among the nations. ¹⁰ Who can tell the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? I pray God that my soule may dye the death of the righteous, and that my last ende may be like his.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Stand: Numbers 23:15

burnt: Genesis 8:20, Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:7, Genesis 22:8, Genesis 22:13, Exodus 18:12, Leviticus 1:1

peradventure: Numbers 23:15, Numbers 22:8, Numbers 22:9, Numbers 22:31-35, Numbers 24:1

went to an high place: or, went solitary

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - met Leviticus 1:3 - a burnt Numbers 22:12 - thou shalt not curse Numbers 22:17 - and I will do Numbers 23:6 - General Joshua 24:10 - General 1 Timothy 1:16 - for this

Cross-References

Genesis 10:15
Chanaan begat Sidon his first borne sonne, and Heth,

Genesis 23:5
And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:

Genesis 23:7
Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.

Genesis 25:10
Whiche fielde Abraham bought of the sonnes of Heth: there was Abraham buryed, and Sara his wyfe.

Genesis 27:46
And Rebecca spake to Isahac: I am weery of my lyfe for the daughters of Heth. Yf Iacob take a wyfe of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the lande, what good shall my lyfe do me?

Genesis 49:30
In the caue that is in the fielde of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the lande of Chanaan, which Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.

1 Samuel 26:6
Then aunswered Dauid, and spake to Ahimelech the Hethite, and to Abisai the sonne of Zaruia, & brother to Ioab, saying: Who wyll go downe with me to Saul to the hoast? And Abisai saide: I wyll go downe with thee.

2 Samuel 23:39
Aria the Hethite: thirtie and seuen in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balaam said unto Balak, stand by thy burnt offering,.... By which it appears that the sacrifices offered were of this sort, and there might be one, which was more peculiarly the burnt offering of Balak; though he might be more or less with Balaam concerned in them all; at which he was directed to stand while it was burning, presenting that and himself to the Lord, that he would have respect to both:

and I will go; depart from thence, at some little distance, unto some private place:

peradventure the Lord will come to meet me; upon the offering of these sacrifices to him, though he could not be certain of it, he having lately shown some displeasure and resentment unto him; and this was also in the daytime, when it was in the night he usually came unto him:

and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee; the whole of it, truly as it is, whether agreeable or not:

and he went to an high place; but he was in one already, and therefore if this is the sense of the word, he must go to another, into a grove in one of the high places, where he might be retired, and so fit for a divine converse; and the Targum of Onkelos renders it alone: but rather the sense is, that he went into a plain, as De Dieu has shown from the use of the word in the Syriac language; he was upon a high place, and he went down from thence into the plain, perhaps into a cave at the bottom of the hill, a retired place, where he hoped the Lord would meet him, as he did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balaam apparently expected to mark some phenomenon in the sky or in nature, which he would be able, according to the rules of his art, to interpret as a portent. It was for such “auguries” (not as the King James Version “enchantments” Numbers 23:23) that he now departed to watch; contrast Numbers 24:1.

An high place - Or, “A bare place on the hill,” as opposed to the high place with its grove of trees.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:3. Stand by thy burnt-offering — We have already seen that blessing and cursing in this way were considered as religious rites, and therefore must be always preceded by sacrifice. See this exemplified in the case of Isaac, before he blessed Jacob and Esau, Genesis 27:19; Genesis 27:28-29; Genesis 27:33-40, and the notes there. The venison that was brought to Isaac, of which he did eat, was properly the preparatory sacrifice.