Numbers 23:4 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 23:4

And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

KJV

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ASV

And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

WEB

and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

YLT

And God cometh unto Balaam, and he saith unto Him, `The seven altars I have arranged, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar;'

DBT

AndGod met Balaam; and [Balaam] said to him, I have disposed seven altars, and have offered up a bullock and a ram upon [each] altar.

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 23:16
And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Ephesians 2:9
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Numbers 22:9
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

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(2.) He insists upon it as a reason why God should gratify him in his desire to curse Israel, as if now he had made God his debtor, and might draw upon him for what he pleased. He thinks God is so much beholden to him for these sacrifices that the least he can do in recompense for them is to sacrifice his Israel to the malice of the king of Moab.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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