Numbers 23:28 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 23:28

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

BSB

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ASV

And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

KJV

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor,.... The name of an high mountain in Moab, so called from a gap or opening in it; here the idol Baal was worshipped, and from hence had the name of Baalpeor, Num 25:3 and here, very probably, was a temple built to the honour of him, called Bethpeor, the house or temple of Baalpeor, Deu 34:6, that looketh towards Jeshimon; as Pisgah also did, and very likely it was not far from it, since from thence they came hither, Num 23:

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Unto the top of Peor - Probably the place where the famous Baal-peor had his chief temple. He appears to have been the Priapus of the Moabites, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene and abominable rites.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּ֥ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
בָּלָ֖ק	ba.Lak	Balak	H1111 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בִּלְעָ֑ם	bil.'Am	Balaam	H1109 →
רֹ֣אשׁ	rosh	[the] top of	H7218 →
הַפְּע֔וֹר	ha.pe.'or	<the> Peor	H6465 →
הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ף	ha.nish.Kaf	which looks down	H8259 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֥י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃	hay.shi.Mon	the desolate place	H3452 →

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

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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
Psalms 106:28
They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
leads to
- Hosea 9:10
  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so…
- Numbers 25:5
  So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
- Numbers 25:1–3
  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
- 1 Corinthians 10:19–20
  Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- Deuteronomy 4:3
  Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
Through
Numbers 21:20
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:27
  Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 34:1
  Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
- Deuteronomy 4:49
  including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Numbers

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Numbers