And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
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Gill's Exposition
And God came unto Balaam,.... In a dream very probably, as he did to Abimelech and Laban, Gen 20:3,
and said, what men are these with thee? who lodged with him that night. This he said, not as…
Barnes' Notes
Balaam must surely have known that God’s blessing was on the people with whose marvelous march forth from Egypt he was acquainted Exo 15:14; Exo 18:1; Jos 2:9, and from whom he had himself probably…
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
the princes of Moab The verse appears to be from E. In Num 22:22 J describes them as the - eldersof Moab."
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