Numbers 22:15 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 22:15

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

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ASV

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

WEB

Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.

YLT

And Balak addeth yet to send princes, more numerous and honoured than these,

DBT

Then sent Balak yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Numbers 22:7–8
And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
Acts 10:7–8
And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
Genesis 34:19
And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

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The permission granted to Balaam is in accordance with the ordinary procedure of Providence. God often gives up men to follow the impulse of their own lusts; but there is no approval in thus leaving them to act at the prompting of their own wicked hearts (Jos 13:27).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

He sent to this conjurer with as great respect and deference to his quality as if he had been a sovereign prince, apprehending perhaps that Balaam had thought himself slighted in the fewness and meanness of the former messengers. The request was very urgent. This powerful prince becomes a suitor to him: " Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We read of Midianites near Mount Sinai, Exod. ii, and iii, which seem to have been a colony of this people, that went out to seek new quarters, as the manner of those times was, but the body of that people were seated in those parts. Lick up - That is, consume and utterly destroy, in which sense the fire is said to lick up the water and sacrifices, 1 Kings xviii, 38.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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