اعداد 22:41

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41 و بامدادان‌ بالاق‌ بلعام‌ را برداشته‌، او را به‌ بلندیهای‌ بعل‌ آورد، تا از آنجا اقصای‌ قوم‌ خود را ملاحظه‌ كند.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

high places: Bamoth baal, "the high places of Baal," probably the same as Bamoth mentioned in Numbers 21:19, Numbers 21:20, evidently not far from Baal-meon, in the mountains of Abarim: for the Israelites were now encamped in the plains of Moab, which these mountains overlook. Baal, which signifies a lord or governor, was a name common to many idols; and probably here was the same as Chemosh, the god of Moab. Numbers 25:2, Numbers 25:3, Deuteronomy 12:2, 2 Chronicles 11:15, Jeremiah 48:35

utmost: Numbers 23:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:38 - Baalmeon Joshua 13:17 - Bamothbaal Isaiah 16:12 - when Jeremiah 19:5 - the high Micah 6:5 - Shittim

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass on the morrow,.... The day after the arrival of Balaam at Balak's royal seat, and after the entertainment given him, and the princes, "on the morning" y of that day, as the word signifies; and perhaps early in the morning, the king eager to be about business, and get the people of Israel cursed if possible as soon as could be:

that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal; where groves were planted, and altars erected to that "idol" and which the Targum of Jonathan calls the idol Peor, the same with Baalpeor,

Numbers 25:3 which might be their god Chemosh, the same with Bacchus or Priapus:

that thence he might see the utmost part of the people; the whole host of Israel, even to the extreme part of it; the camp of Dan, as the Targum of Jonathan, which brought up the rear; he had him to those high places, both that he might have a better view of the whole body of the people, and know how they lay, and to direct his curses at them, and that success might attend the undertaking, these being places of religious worship. Josephus says z those high places were sixty furlongs or seven and one half miles from the camp of Israel.

y בבקר in matutino, Montanus; mane, V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. z Antiqu. l. 4. c. 6. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That thence he might see - Rather, and thence he saw.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 22:41. That - he might see the utmost part of the people. — As he thought Balaam must have them all in his eye when he pronounced his curse, lest it might not extend to those who were not in sight. On this account he took him up into the high places of Baal.