Numbers 23 · Verse 28

Numbers 23:28

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 23:28, King James Version

Numbers 23:28 in other translations

BSBAnd Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
WEBBalak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
ASVAnd Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
YLTAnd Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
DARBYAnd Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks over the surface of the waste.
BBESo Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.
WebsterAnd Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looketh towards Jeshimon.

What does Numbers 23:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor--or, Beth-peor (De 3:29), the eminence on which a temple of Baal stood. that looketh toward Jeshimon--the desert tract in the south of Palestine, on both sides of the Dead Sea.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 Unto the top of Peor - Probably the place where the famous Baal-peor had his chief temple. He appears to have been the Priapus of the Moabites, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene and abominable rites.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 23:11-30

Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessing; and this blessing is both larger and stronger than the former. Men change their minds, and break their words; but God never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. And when in Scripture he is said to…

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Numbers 23:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּקַּ֥חvai.yi.Kachand he tookH3947
בָּלָ֖קba.LakBalakH1111
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בִּלְעָ֑םbil.'AmBalaamH1109
רֹ֣אשׁrosh[the] top ofH7218
הַפְּע֔וֹרha.pe.'or<the> PeorH6465
הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ףha.nish.Kafwhich looks downH8259
עַל\־'al-overH5921
פְּנֵ֥יpe.Nei[the] face ofH6440
הַיְשִׁימֹֽן\׃hay.shi.Monthe desolate placeH3452

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 23:28

  • Numbers 21:20

    And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

  • Psalms 106:28

    They joined themselves also unto Baal–peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jeshimon.
21:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 23:27

    And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

  • Numbers 23:28

    And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

  • Numbers 23:29

    And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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Numbers 23:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Balac llevó á Balaam á la cumbre de Peor, que mira hacia Jesimón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Balak conduisit Balaam au sommet du Péor, qui se montre au-dessus de la surface du désert.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Balak nahm den Bileam mit auf den Gipfel des Peor, der emporragt über die Fläche der Wildnis.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Cumque duxisset eum super verticem montis Phogor, qui respicit solitudinem,