Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:1 - 23:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:1 - 23:1

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23:1 - 23:1
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23:4 - 23:4
23:7 - 23:7
23:8 - 23:8
23:9 - 23:9
23:10 - 23:10
23:13 - 23:13
23:14 - 23:14
23:18 - 23:18
23:21 - 23:21
23:22 - 23:22
23:23 - 23:23
23:26 - 23:26
23:28 - 23:28

Num 23:1-30. Balak’s sacrifices.

Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars - Balak, being a heathen, would naturally suppose these altars were erected in honor of Baal, the patron deity of his country. It is evident, from Num 23:4 that they were prepared for the worship of the true God; although in choosing the high places of Baal as their site and rearing a number of altars (2Ki 18:22; Isa 17:8; Jer 11:13; Hos 8:11; Hos 10:1), instead of one only, as God had appointed, Balaam blended his own superstitions with the divine worship. The heathen, both in ancient and modern times, attached a mysterious virtue to the number seven; and Balaam, in ordering the preparation of so many altars, designed to mystify and delude the king.