Numbers 23:2

2 And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar.

Numbers 23:2 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 23:2

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken
Ordered seven altars to be built, and prepared seven bullocks and rams for sacrifice:

and Balak and Balsam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram;
both seem to be concerned in offering the sacrifices; Balak, though a king, it being usual for kings to be priests also, as Melchizedek was, and Balaam as a prophet; and these sacrifices were offered to the true God, as seems clear from ( Numbers 23:4 ) and to which Balak, at the direction of Balaam, agreed, in order to gain the Lord on his side, that he might prevail over the people of Israel.

Numbers 23:2 In-Context

1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."

2 And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar.

3 And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went [to] a barren height.

4 And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar.

5 Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."