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Numbers 22:15 KJV
Numbers · chapter 22 · verse 15
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.Numbers 22:15 · King James Version
Numbers 22:15 in context
13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
16And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
17For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- princessara head personH8269 →
- BalakBâlâqBalak, a Moabitish kingH1111 →
- sentshâlachto send away, for, or outH7971 →
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We have here a second embassy sent to Balaam, to fetch him over to curse Israel. It were well for us if we were as earnest and constant in prosecuting a good work, notwithstanding disappointments, as Balak was in pursuing this ill design.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-21