Numbers 23:14
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So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Read Numbers 23:14 Using Other Translations
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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
So Balak took Balaam to the plateau of Zophim on Pisgah Peak. He built seven altars there and offered a young bull and a ram on each altar.
What does Numbers 23:14 mean?
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Numbers 23:14
FOOTNOTES:
F9 Onomastic Sacr. p. 935.
And he brought him into the field of Zophim
Or Sede Tzophim, as Hillerus F9 reads it, so called from the
watch tower, and watchmen in it: Jarchi says, it was a high
place, where a watchman stood to observe if an army came against
a city, and so a very proper place to take a view of the armies
of Israel from:
to the top of Pisgah;
a high hill in this place, where perhaps the watch tower was, or,
however, the watchman stood: this looked towards Jeshimon or
Bethjesimoth, in the plain of Moab, where Israel lay encamped,
see ( Numbers
21:20 ) ( 33:49 ) :
and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every
altar: as he had done before, ( Numbers 23:2
) .
F9 Onomastic Sacr. p. 935.
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