Numbers 22:1
Verse 1 of 41. The 22nd of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.
1And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
4And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
5He 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:
Numbers 22:1 in the World English Bible
The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.Read Numbers 22:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:1
The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (ch. xxi. 18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till they passed through Jordan under Joshua, after the death of Moses. Now we have here,
Read Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:1–14: Balak Sends for Balaam. (b. c. 1452.)
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