He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
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Gill's Exposition
Come now, therefore, I pray thee,.... To my country, city, and court:
curse me this people; by imprecations on them; and which being attended with various rites and ceremonies, brought calamities on…
Barnes' Notes
Balaam the son of Beor was from the first a worshipper in some sort of the true God; and had learned some elements of pure and true religion in his home in the far East, the cradle of the ancestors of…
The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued…
Cambridge Bible
Balaam the son of Beor It is interesting that the name Bela the son of Beor occurs of a king of Edom(Gen 36:32). Balaam (Heb. Bil-âm) and Bela- are practically identical words; and some have thought…
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