Balak

The first 10 of 41 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Numbers

• Numbers 22:2

  Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites,

• Numbers 22:4

  So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,

• Numbers 22:7

  The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.

• Numbers 22:10

  And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:

• Numbers 22:13

  So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

• Numbers 22:14

  And the princes of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

• Numbers 22:15

  Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.

• Numbers 22:16

  They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

• Numbers 22:18

  But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

• Numbers 22:35

  But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.