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Numbers 22:8 KJV
Numbers · chapter 22 · verse 8
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.Numbers 22:8 · King James Version
Numbers 22:8 in context
6Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
8And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
9And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
10And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- princessara head personH8269 →
- Lodgelûwnto stopH3885 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- bringshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- abodeyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
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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