American Standard Version
Numbers 23:28
28And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
Numbers 23:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- New International Version (NIV)And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.
Context of Numbers 23:28
26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do? 27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. 29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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וַיִּקַּ֥ח בָּלָ֖ק אֶת־בִּלְעָ֑ם רֹ֣אשׁ הַפְּע֔וֹר הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ף עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Numbers 23:28
Commentaries on Numbers 23:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28Unto the top of Peor - Probably the place where the famous Baal-peor had his chief temple. He appears to have been the Priapus of the Moabites, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene and abominable rites.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28The position of Peor northward from Pisgah, along the Abarim heights, is approximately determined by the extant notices of Beth-peor. Jeshimon - was the waste, in the great valley below, where stood Beth-jeshimoth, “the house of the wastes.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-30Verses 11-30 Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessing; and this blessing is both larger and stronger than the former. Men change their minds, and break their words; but God never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. And when in Scripture he is said to repent, it does not mean any…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27-30Unhappy with Balaam's blessing, Balak hoped a new location would change the outcome. Although the exact location of Mount Peor is unknown, it was probably near a worship site for Baal of Peor and the Beth-peor (compare 25:3, 5). See Deuteronomy 3:29; 34:6 for where they buried Moses.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor--or, Beth-peor (De 3:29), the eminence on which a temple of Baal stood. that looketh toward Jeshimon--the desert tract in the south of Palestine, on both sides of the Dead Sea.Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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