Numbers 22:15
So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
In Context
14So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us.
Cross References
Numbers 22:7So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:2-15
Balak Sends for Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of… Read the whole commentary →