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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Balak (King living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness)
The Moabite king who paid Balaam to curse Israel and got blessings instead, oracle after oracle. His temper fraying each time is one of the darkly comic threads in Numbers.
First, in plain English
The Moabite king who paid Balaam to curse Israel and got blessings instead, oracle after oracle. His temper fraying each time is one of the darkly comic threads in Numbers.
Who this is
Balak was the Moabite king who hired the prophet Balaam to curse the invading Israelites, and his growing frustration as Balaam's oracles kept turning into blessings instead of curses is one of the more darkly comic threads in the Pentateuch.
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The word
H1111
Where it appears
- Numbers 22:2
- Numbers 22:4
- Numbers 22:7
- Numbers 22:10
- Numbers 22:13
- Numbers 22:14
- Numbers 22:15
- Numbers 22:16
- Numbers 22:18
- Numbers 22:35
- Numbers 22:36
- Numbers 22:37
- Numbers 22:38
- Numbers 22:39
- Numbers 22:40
- Numbers 22:41
- Numbers 23:1
- Numbers 23:2
- Numbers 23:3
- Numbers 23:5
- Numbers 23:7
- Numbers 23:11
- Numbers 23:13
- Numbers 23:15
- Numbers 23:16
- Numbers 23:17
- Numbers 23:18
- Numbers 23:25
- Numbers 23:26
- Numbers 23:27
- Numbers 23:28
- Numbers 23:29
- Numbers 23:30
- Numbers 24:10
- Numbers 24:12
- Numbers 24:13
- Numbers 24:25
- Joshua 24:9
- Judges 11:25
- Micah 6:5
