A man of the Moabites living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.22.2; son of: Zippor (H6834) Also named: Balak (Βαλάκ "Balak" G0904) § Balak = "devastator" a king of Moab who hired Balaam to curse Israel
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ba.laq · Balak · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Numbers 22:2 · בָּלָ֖קBalak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.Numbers 22:4 · וּבָלָ֧קMoab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.Numbers 22:7 · בָלָֽק׃The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.Numbers 22:10 · בָּלָ֧קBalaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,Numbers 22:13 · בָלָ֔קBalaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”Numbers 22:14 · בָּלָ֑קThe princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”Numbers 22:15 · בָּלָ֑קBalak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.Numbers 22:16 · בָּלָ֣קThey came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:Numbers 22:18 · בָלָ֔ק · בָלָ֛קBalaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.Numbers 22:35 · בָלָֽק׃The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.Numbers 22:36 · בָּלָ֖קWhen Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.Numbers 22:37 · בָּלָ֜קBalak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”Numbers 22:38 · בָּלָ֗קBalaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”Numbers 22:39 · בָּלָ֑קBalaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.Numbers 22:40 · בָּלָ֖קBalak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.Numbers 22:41 · בָּלָק֙It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.Numbers 23:1 · בָּלָ֔קBalaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”Numbers 23:2 · בָּלָ֔ק · בָּלָ֧קBalak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.Numbers 23:3 · לְבָלָ֗קBalaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.Numbers 23:5 · בָּלָ֖קYahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”Numbers 23:7 · בָלָ֤קHe took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.Numbers 23:11 · בָּלָק֙Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”Numbers 23:13 · בָּלָ֗קBalak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.”Numbers 23:15 · בָּלָ֔קHe said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.”Numbers 23:16 · בָּלָ֖קYahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”Numbers 23:17 · בָּלָ֔קHe came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”Numbers 23:18 · בָּלָק֙He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.Numbers 23:25 · בָּלָק֙Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”Numbers 23:26 · בָּלָ֑קBut Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”Numbers 23:27 · בָּלָק֙Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.”Numbers 23:28 · בָּלָ֖קBalak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.Numbers 23:29 · בָּלָ֔קBalaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”Numbers 23:30 · בָּלָ֔קBalak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.Numbers 24:10 · בָּלָק֙ · בָּלָ֜קBalak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.Numbers 24:12 · בָּלָ֑קBalaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,Numbers 24:13 · בָלָ֜ק‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?Numbers 24:25 · בָּלָ֖קBalaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.Joshua 24:9 · בָּלָ֤קThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;Judges 11:25 · מִבָּלָ֥קNow are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?Micah 6:5 · בָּלָק֙My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”