Numbers 22:15 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 22:15

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Balak, like the ancient pagan world generally, not only believed in the efficacy of the curses and incantations of the soothsayers, but regarded their services as strictly venal. Hence, when his first offer was declined, he infers at once that he had not bid high enough.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֥סֶף	vai.Yo.sef	and he repeated	H3254 →
ע֖וֹד	od	again	H5750 →
בָּלָ֑ק	ba.Lak	Balak	H1111 →
שְׁלֹ֣חַ	she.Lo.ach	to send	H7971 →
שָׂרִ֔ים	sa.Rim	leaders	H8269 →
רַבִּ֥ים	ra.Bim	many	H7227 →
וְנִכְבָּדִ֖ים	ve.nikh.ba.Dim	and honored	H3513 →
מֵאֵֽלֶּה׃	me.'E.leh	more than these	H428 →