BALAAM'S PARABLES
Numbers 22:39, Numbers 24:1
THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of
the Hebrew tribes in the plain of the Jordan is fully visible. At
Kiriath-huzoth, possibly the modern Shihan, about ten miles east of
the Dead Sea, and to the south of the Amon vall... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MATTER OF BAAL-PEOR
Numbers 24:10; Numbers 25:1
THE last oracle of Balaam, as we have it, ventures into far more
explicit predictions than the others, and passes beyond the range of
Hebrew history. Its chief value for the Israelites lay in what was
taken to be a Messianic prophecy contained in... [ Continue Reading ]