r Deut. 3. 3,4, &c. a ch. 33. 48. bJudg. 11. 25. e Ex. 15. 15, rl ch. 31. 8. Josh, 13. 21. • Deut. 23. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 15. Deut. 23. 4. + Heb. eye. g ch. 23. 7. CHAPTER XXII. 1 Balak's first message for Balaam is rcfused. 15 His second message obtaineth him. 22 An angel would have slain him, if his ass had not saved him. 36 Balak entertaincth him. AND the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 T And b 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 Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time. 5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to f Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, fSee ch. 23. 7. they cover the face of the carth, and they abide over against me: 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. 7 And the elders of Moab and the h1 Sam. 9. 7, clders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. 8 And he said unto them, i Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. 8. i ver. 19. k Gen. 20. 3. ver. 20. Heb. I shall prevail in fighting against him. 1 ch. 23. 20, Rom. 11. 29, 9 k And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee? 10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, 11 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure + I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. 13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the An angel opposeth Balaam. LORD refuseth to give me leave to Before go with you. 14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. 15 T And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zipper; Let nothing; I p thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. CHRIST 1152. + Heb. Be not thou letted from, fc. in ver. 6. n ch. 24. 13. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ol Kin. 22.14. the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. 2 Chr. 18. 13. 19 Now therefore, I pray you, P tar-rver. 8. ry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more. 20 4 And God came unto Balaam ver. 9. at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. 21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. I ver. 35. ch. 23, 12, 26. & 24.13. 22 T And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of Ex. 4. 24. the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. 17. Dan. 10. 7. Acts 22. 9. 2 Pet. 2. 16. Jude 11. 23 And the ass saw the angel of tee 2 Kin. 6. the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. 24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. 25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Bulaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. 26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. 27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. 28 And the LORD "opened the 2 Pet. 2. 16, mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? Balak goeth to meet Balaam. Before CHRIST 1452. x Prov. 12. 10. 72 Pet. 2. 16. ↑ Heb. who hast ridden upon me. 1 Or, ever since thou wast, &c. Sse Gen. 21. 19. NUMBERS. 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, fupon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. 31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the an2 Kin. 6. 17. gel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and I fell flat on his face. Luke 24. 16, 31. a Ex. 31. 8. Or, bowed himmelf. 32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out † to withstand thee, an adversary because thy way is b perverse before ↑ Heb, to be unto thee. b 2 Pet. 2, 14, 15. c18am.15.24, 2 Sam. 12.13, Job 34.31.32 + Heb. be evil in thine eyes. 30. & 26. 21. d ver. 20. me: 33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive. 34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. 35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: d but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. 36 T And when Balak heard that e Gen. 14. 17. Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, fch. 21. 13. fwhich is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast. 37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed 8 to promote thee to honour? 38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? hthe word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. 89 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-hu zoth. 40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. 41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people. CHAPTER XXIII. 1, 13, 23 Balak's sacrifice. 7, 18 Balaam's parable. ND Balaam said unto Balak, Balaam's parables. 5 And the LORD fput a word infver. 16. Balaam's mouth, and said, Return el, 22, 35. unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. 7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, i defy Israel. 8 k How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? PI pch. 22.11,17. took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, 9Must q ch, 22, 38. I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest sce them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 14 T And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, rand built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. A Build me here seven altars, said, 'Rise up, Balak, and hear; Judg. 3. 20. and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. hearken unto me, thou son of Zip por: but his latter end | shall be that he CHRIST perish for ever. 21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. Or, shall be even to do struction. Ex. 17. 14. 1 Sam.15 3.6. + Heb. Rain, Gen 15. 19. Or, how long shall it be ere Aukur carry thee away cap. tive? f Gen. 10. 4. Dan, 11, 30. Gen. 10. 21, 25. h See ch 31.8. a ch. 33 49. d Ex. 31. 15, 1 Cor 10. 20. . Ex. 20. 5. fP 106 29. 22 Nevertheless † the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. 23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! 24 And ships shall come from the coast of f Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict & Eber, and he also shall perish for ever. 25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way. CHAPTER XXV. 1 Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and Israel abode The sum of all Israel taken. ous for my sake among them, that Before I consumed not the children of Is- CHRIST rael in my jealousy. 1452. 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give Heb, with unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and this seed after him, even the covenant of "an everlasting priesthood; because Ex. 20. 5. he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. my seal: Deut. 32. 18, 21. 1 Kin. 14. 22. P. 78. 58. Es. 16 38. Zeph 1. 18. & 3.8. & 2, 1. t See 1 Chr. 6 4, &c. 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Mal, 2, 4, 5. Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fchief house among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianitish Ex. 40. 15. woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of 2 Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Heb. 2. 17. Mídian. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: A and the people began to comb 2 And they called the people unto 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses. Take all the heads of the people, Josh. 22. 17. and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, h that the fierce g Deut. 4. 3. hver 11. Deut. 13. 17. 1 Ex.18.21,25. k Ex 32, 27. Deut 13, 6. 9, 13, 15. 1 Joel 2. 17. m Ps. 106, 30. n Ex. 6. 25. o P. 106. 30. p Deut. 4. 3. 1 Cor. 10. 8. q Ps. 106, 30. 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 The sum of all Isract is taken in the anger of the LORD may be turned AND it came to pass after the away 5 And Moses said unto ithe judges of Israel, k Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal peor. 6 T And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, "the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Is- 9 And those that died in the plague 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, x Acts 22. 3. Rom. 10. 2. + Heb. house of a father. zch, 31. 8. Josh. 13. 21. a ch. 31. 2. bah. 31. 18. Rev. 2. 14. 5 Reuben, the eldest son of Isra-Gen. 46. 8. el: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reu- 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. |