Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here shivah mizbechot, and prepare for me here shivah bulls and shivah rams.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on each mizbe'ach a bull and a ram.
Cross References
Exodus 27:1And thou shalt build the Mizbe'ach of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide; the Mizbe'ach shall be foursquare; and the height thereof shall be shalosh cubits.
Numbers 23:30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each mizbe'ach.
1 Samuel 15:22And Shmuel said, 1 Hath Hashem as great chefetz (delight) in olot and zevakhim, 1 as in obeying the voice of Hashem? 1 Hinei, to obey is better than zevach (sacrifice), 1 and to pay heed than the chelev eilim (fat of rams). 1
1 Chronicles 15:26And it came to pass, when HaElohim helped the Levi'im that bore the Aron Brit Hashem, that they offered in sacrifice shivah bulls and shivah rams.
Job 42:8Therefore take unto you now seven bulls and seven rams, and go to Avdi Iyov, and offer up for yourselves olah (burnt offering); and Avdi Iyov shall pray for you; for him will I accept; lest I deal with you after your nevalah (folly), in that ye have not spoken in reference to Me the thing which is nekhonah (correct), like Avdi Iyov.
Proverbs 15:8The zevach of the resha'im is a to'evah to Hashem, 1 but the tefillah (prayer) of the yesharim is His delight. 1
Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:1
In this chapter we have Balak and Balaam busy at work to do Israel a mischief, and, for ought that appears, neither Moses nor the elders of Israel know any thing of the matter, nor are in a capacity to break the snare; but God, who keeps Israel, and neither slumbers nor sleeps, baffles the attempt, without any intercession or contrivance of theirs. Here is, I. The first attempt to curse Israel. 1. The preparation made for it by sacrifice, ver. 1-3 . 2. The contrary instruction God gave Balaam, ver. 4, 5 . 3. The… Read the whole commentary →