Numbers 23:1
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
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2So Balak did as Balaam requested. Then Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on every altar.
Cross References
Exodus 27:1You must make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar must be square and three cubits high.
Numbers 23:30So Balak did as Balaam had said; he offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
1 Samuel 15:22Samuel replied, “Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and to listen is better than the fat of rams.
1 Chronicles 15:26While God helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
Job 42:8Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer, so that I may not deal with you after your folly. You have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has done.”
Proverbs 15:8Yahweh hates the sacrifices of wicked people, 1 but the prayer of upright people 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 →