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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
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Gill's Exposition
Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, arose,.... Being alarmed with what Israel had done to the two kings of the Amorites, and by their near approach to the borders of his kingdom:
and…
Adam Clarke
Then Balak - arose and warred against Israel - This circumstance is not related in Numbers 22:1-41, nor does it appear in that history that the Moabites attacked the Israelites; and probably the…
Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life…
Cambridge Bible
Then Balak the son of Zippor He is also mentioned in Jdg 11:25; Mic 6:5; Rev 2:14. The Israelites were at this time encamped in the plains of Shittim, "the meadow of the Acacias."
and warred against…
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