Números 22:3

3 los moabitas sintieron mucho miedo de los israelitas. Estaban verdaderamente aterrorizados de ellos, porque eran un ejército muy numeroso.

Números 22:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 22:3

And Moab was sore afraid of the people
Lest they should enter into their country and do to them as they had done to Sihon and Og, and their countries; on this account the king of Moab, his nobles, and the people of the land, were in an exceeding great panic, which was a fulfilling of the prophecy of Moses in ( Exodus 15:15 ) :

because they were many
the number of them taken a little after in this place, where they now were, in the plains of Moab, even after 24,000 had died of the plague, was 601,730, ( Numbers 25:9 ) ( 26:51 ) :

and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel;
though they had no reason for it, had they considered their relation to them, being the descendants of Abraham, the uncle of Lot, whose posterity they were; and that the Israelites had done them service in delivering them from such bad neighbours, who had taken much of their country from them, and were doubtless making continual encroachments on them; and especially had they known the orders the Israelites had from the Lord not to distress them, nor contend with them in battle, ( Deuteronomy 2:9 ) , but this they were ignorant of, and being of a different religion from the Israelites, had them in abhorrence, or loathed them, as the word signifies; though the meaning rather seems to be, that they had a nausea, a loathing in their stomachs, and could not eat their food, because of the dread of the Israelites that was upon them; or they were weary of their lives, as Jarchi interprets it, and as the word is used, ( Genesis 27:46 ) .

Números 22:3 In-Context

1 Los israelitas se pusieron otra vez en marcha, y acamparon en las estepas de Moab, al otro lado del Jordán, a la altura de Jericó.

2 Cuando Balac hijo de Zipor se dio cuenta de todo lo que Israel había hecho con los amorreos,

3 los moabitas sintieron mucho miedo de los israelitas. Estaban verdaderamente aterrorizados de ellos, porque eran un ejército muy numeroso.

4 Entonces dijeron los moabitas a los ancianos de Madián: «¡Esta muchedumbre barrerá con todo lo que hay a nuestro alrededor, como cuando el ganado barre con la hierba del campo!»En aquel tiempo, Balac hijo de Zipor era rey de Moab,

5 así que mandó llamar a Balán hijo de Beor, quien vivía en Petor, a orillas del río Éufrates, en la tierra de los amavitas. Balac mandó a decirle:«Hay un pueblo que salió de Egipto, y que ahora cubre toda la tierra y ha venido a asentarse cerca de mí.