Balak by procuring them and Balaam by offering them; through in ancient times kings were priests also, and so might perform a priestly work, as this was. <\/P> <\/p>\n
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken<\/strong>,…. Ordered seven altars to be built, and prepared seven bullocks and rams for sacrifice:<\/p>\n and Balak and Balsam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram<\/strong>; both seem to be concerned in offering the sacrifices; Balak, though a king, it being usual for kings to be priests also, as Melchizedek was, and Balaam as a prophet; and these sacrifices were offered to the true God, as seems clear from Nu 23:4<\/span> and to which Balak, at the direction of Balaam, agreed, in order to gain the Lord on his side, that he might prevail over the people of Israel.<\/p>\n (2) And Balak and Balaam offered.<\/strong>It is more probable that Balak, as a king, performed priestly functions than that Balaam performed them alone. (See Note on Num. 22:40<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Num 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.<\/p>\n Ver. 2. And Balak did.<\/strong> ] Ready to conform to any religion, so he might obtain his purposes. God abhors these lukewarm neuter passives, that are inter coelum terramque penduli,<\/em> that halt between two, that commit idolatry between the porch and the altar, with those five and twenty miscreants. Eze 8:16 <\/p>\n as = according to what. <\/p>\n offered = offered up. Hebrew. ‘alah. See App-43. <\/p>\n offered: Num 23:14, Num 23:30 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 22:17 – and I will do Num 22:40 – General Num 23:29 – General 1Ch 15:26 – bullocks Eze 45:23 – seven bullocks<\/p>\n 23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and<\/p>\n (a) Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.<\/p>\n (a) For among the Gentiles the kings often used to sacrifice, as did the priests.<\/p>\n And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram. Balak by procuring them and Balaam by offering them; through in ancient times kings were priests also, and so might perform a priestly work, as this was. Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 23:2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"