Numbers 23:1

Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

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In The King James Version

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

In Context

2Balak did as Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] had spoken; and Balak and Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits [7.5 ft; 22.9 m] long, and five cubits [7.5 ft; 22.9 m] wide; the altar shall be square: and its height shall be three cubits [4.5 ft; 13.7 m].

Numbers 23:30Balak did as Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, 2 but the prayer of the upright 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 →

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