And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done
to
the Amorites.
] The word "Amorites" being particularly pointed, shows, as Aben
Ezra observes, that Sihon and Og are both meant, and that there
were not among the kings of the land of Canaan any so great as
they; wherefore when Balak, who was the present king of Moab, saw
what Israel had done to them, that they had conquered them, and
seized upon their kingdoms: he reasoned within himself, and said,
as Jarchi represents him, that if they could not stand before
Israel, much less could he and his people; and the rather, since
those kings Israel had subdued were too powerful for the king of
Moab, and had taken part of his country from him, and yet Israel
was too strong for them.