Numbers 22:4-6
elders Num 22:7, Num 25:15-18, Num 31:8; Josh 13:21-22 Now shall Num 24:17; Jer 48:38 And Balak Num 22:2; Judg 11:25 sent Deut 23:4; Josh 13:22, Josh 24:9; Neh 13:1-2; Mic 6:5; 2Pet 2:15-16, son of Bosor, Jude 1:11; Rev 2:14 Pethor Dr. Kennicott justly remarks, that "the description now given of Balaam's residence, instead of being particular, agrees with any place, in any country where there is a river; for he lived by 'Pethor, which is by the river of the land of his people.' But was Pethor, then, near the Nile in Egypt? Or in Canaan, near Jordan? Or in Mesopotamia, near the Euphrates, and belonging to the Ammonites? This last was in fact the case; and therefore, it is well that twelve Hebrew manuscripts (with two of De Rossi's) confirm the Samaritan text here, in reading instead of âmmo, 'his people,' Ammon, with the Syriac and Vulgate versions." Houbigant justly contends for this reading; and necessity urges the propriety of adopting it, and it thus agrees with Deut 23:4. Ptolemy calls Pethor, Pachura, and Eusebius, Pathura; who places it in upper Mesopotamia. Calmet is of opinion, that it was situated towards Thapsacus, beyond the Euphrates. Num 23:7; Deut 23:4 they cover Gen 13:16; Exod 1:7-10; Ps 105:24 face Heb. eye curse me Num 23:7-8, Num 24:9; Gen 12:3, Gen 27:29; Deut 23:4; Josh 24:9; 1Sam 17:43; Neh 13:2; Ps 109:17-18 I wot 1Kgs 22:6, 1Kgs 22:8, 1Kgs 22:13; Ps 109:28; Prov 26:2; Isa 47:12-13; Ezek 13:6; Acts 8:9-10, Acts 16:16
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