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Numbers 22:2 KJV
Numbers · chapter 22 · verse 2
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.Numbers 22:2 · King James Version
Numbers 22:2 in context
1And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
4And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ZipporTsippôwrTsippor, a MoabiteH6834 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- BalakBâlâqBalak, a Moabitish kingH1111 →
- doneʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- sonbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- sawrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
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The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till they passed through Jordan under Joshua, after the death of Moses. Now we have here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-14