Numbers 22 · Verse 15

Numbers 22:15

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
Numbers 22:15, King James Version

Numbers 22:15 in other translations

BSBThen Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.
WEBBalak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
ASVAnd Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
YLTAnd Balak addeth yet to send princes, more numerous and honoured than these,
DARBYThen sent Balak yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
BBESo Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.
WebsterAnd Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

What does Numbers 22:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 22:8-15

8-14. Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me, &c.--God usually revealed His will in visions and dreams; and Balaam's birth and residence in Mesopotamia, where the remains of patriarchal religion still lingered, account for his knowledge of the true God. His real character has long been a subject of discussion. Some, judging from his language, have thought him a saint…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 22:15-21
A second embassy was sent to Balaam. It were well for us, if we were as earnest and constant in prosecuting a good work, notwithstanding disappointments. Balak laid a bait, not only for Balaam's covetousness, but for his pride and ambition. How earnestly should we beg of God daily to mortify such desires in us! Thus sinners stick at no pains, spare no cost, and care not how low they stoop, to gratify their luxury, or their malice. Shall we then be unwilling to do what is right? God forbid! Balaam's convictions charged him to keep to the command of God; nor could any man have spoken better. But many call God theirs, who are not his, not truly because not only his. There is no judging men by their words; God knows the heart. Balaam's corruptions at the same time inclined him to go contrary to the command. He seemed to refuse the temptation; but he expressed no abhorrence of it. He had a strong desire to accept the offer, and hoped that God might give him leave to go. He had already been told what the will of God was. It is a certain evidence of the ruling of corruption in the heart, to beg leave to sin. God gave Balaam up to his own heart's lusts. As God sometimes denies the prayers of his people in love, so sometimes he grants the desires of the wicked in wrath.

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Numbers 22:15 in the original Hebrew

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וַיֹּ֥סֶףvai.Yo.sefand he repeatedH3254
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750
בָּלָ֑קba.LakBalakH1111
שְׁלֹ֣חַshe.Lo.achto sendH7971
שָׂרִ֔יםsa.RimleadersH8269
רַבִּ֥יםra.BimmanyH7227
וְנִכְבָּדִ֖יםve.nikh.ba.Dimand honoredH3513
מֵאֵֽלֶּה\׃me.'E.lehmore than theseH428

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Cross references for Numbers 22:15

  • Acts 10:7-8

    And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

  • Numbers 22:7-8

    And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
princes.
7,8; Ac 10:7,8

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Context

  • Numbers 22:14

    And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

  • Numbers 22:15

    And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

  • Numbers 22:16

    And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

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Numbers 22:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y tornó Balac á enviar otra vez más príncipes, y más honorables que los otros.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Balak envoya encore des seigneurs, plus nombreux et plus considérables que ceux-là;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sandte Balak noch einmal Fürsten, mehr und geehrtere als jene.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Rursum ille multo plures et nobiliores quam ante miserat, misit.