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Balaam. So written after the Greek. In Hebrew bis name is Bil'am. Compare Jos_13:22 with Jos_24:9, Jos_24:10; 2Pe_2:15, 2Pe_2:16. He was a spiritist or medium. He is identified by Sayce with Bela, Gen_36:31, Gen_36:32, where Moses incorporates a list of Edomite kings. According to the Tel-el-Amama tablets he was a Hittite chieftain, who established a kingdom for himself: and he died fighting against Israel by the side of his Midianite allies (Num_31:8. Jos_13:22).
his people: i.e. whom he had banded together and led. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "sons of Ammon".