Numbers 23:15

15 Balaam said to Balak, ¹“Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there. ”

Numbers 23:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 23:15

And he said unto Balak, stand here by thy burnt offering
As he had before directed him, ( Numbers 23:3 )

while I meet the Lord yonder;
pointing to some place at a little distance, where he expected to meet the Lord, and have some instructions from him, which he seemed confident of, having met with him once already.

Numbers 23:15 In-Context

13 And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there. ”

14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there. ”

16 And the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak. ”

17 And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken? ”

Cross References

• 1. 23:15 ver. 3