40And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
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And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-41)We have here the meeting between Balak and Balaam, confederate enemies to God’s Israel; but here they seem to differ in their expectations of the success. 1. Balak speaks of it with confidence, not doubting but to gain his point now that Balaam had come. In expectation of this, he went out to meet him, even to the utmost border of his country (Num. 22:36), partly to gratify his own impatient desir…
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