Numbers 22:39
in Numbers 22So Balaam accompanied Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath-huzoth.
KJV
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath–huzoth.
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This verse in Numbers 22
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd Balaam went with Balak,.... From Ar of Moab, or, however, from the place where they met, to the royal city where Balak had his palace, and seems to be the place following: and they came to Kirjathhuzoth; which Jarchi interprets a city full of streets, a populous place, having a multitude of men, women, and children in the streets of it; and the same writer suggests as if Balak's view in this was to move the pity of Balaam, that such a number of people might not be rooted out and destroyed.
This site's exposition
And Balaam went with Balak
on Numbers 22:39-41
Balak kills oxen and sheep and sends portions to Balaam and to the princes, so the working arrangement opens with a shared meal. In the morning he takes him up to the high places of Baal, a shrine of the god of the country, to look out over the camp. What he is shown is the utmost part of the people, the edge of the camp rather than the whole of it, and Balak tries the same partial view again at 23:13 once the first oracle has gone against him.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Kirjath-buzoth - i. e., “city of streets,” within Balak’s dominions, south of the Arnon, and identified either with the ruins of Shihan, 4 miles west by south of the site assigned to Ar or Ir, or with Kirjathaim (Kureivat).
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ | vaiyelekh | and he went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בִּלְעָ֖ם | bilam | Balaam | H1109 → | 61 times |
| עִם־ | ʾim- | with | H5973 → | 1050 times |
| בָּלָ֑ק | balak | Balak | H1111 → | 43 times |
| וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ | vaiyavou | and they came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| קִרְיַ֥ת | kiryat | Kiriath- | H7155 → | |
| חֻצֽוֹת׃ | chutzot | huzoth | H7155 → |
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he went
vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times
בִּלְעָ֖םBalaam
bilamH1109 →61 times
עִם־with
ʾim-H5973 →1050 times
בָּלָ֑קBalak
balakH1111 →43 times
וַיָּבֹ֖אוּand they came
vaiyavouH935 →2568 times
קִרְיַ֥תKiriath-
kiryatH7155 →
חֻצֽוֹת׃huzoth
chutzotH7155 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.