Numbers 22:41 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 22:41

The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the outskirts of the camp of the people.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That - he might see the utmost part of the people - As he thought Balaam must have them all in his eye when he pronounced his curse, lest it might not extend to those who were not in sight. On this account he took him up into the high places of Baal.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The high places of Baal - Consecrated to the worship of Baal, that is, of Baal Peor, who was their Baal or God. The utmost part - That is, all that people, even to the utmost and remotest of them, as appears by comparing this with, chap. xxiii, 13.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בַבֹּ֔קֶר	va.Bo.ker	in the morning	H1242 →
וַיִּקַּ֤ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
בָּלָק֙	ba.Lak	Balak	H1111 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בִּלְעָ֔ם	bil.'Am	Balaam	H1109 →
וַֽיַּעֲלֵ֖הוּ	vai.ya.'a.Le.hu	and he brought up him	H5927 →
בָּמ֣וֹת	ba.Mot	Bamoth	H1120 →
בָּ֑עַל	Ba.'al	Baal	H1168 →
וַיַּ֥רְא	vai.Yar'	and he saw	H7200 →
מִשָּׁ֖ם	mi.Sham	from there	H8033 →
קְצֵ֥ה	ke.Tzeh	[the] outskirt[s] of	H7097 →
הָעָֽם׃	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:5
  Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
- 2 Kings 16:4
  And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Numbers 33:51–52
  “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- 2 Kings 17:10–11
  They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 7:25–26
  You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it…
Through
Numbers 21:28
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
leads to
- Numbers 21:15
  even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
Through
2 Chronicles 11:15
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
leads to
- 1 Kings 12:28
  After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out…
- Deuteronomy 32:17
  They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.