Numbers 22:10 (BSB)

And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 22:1-14: The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till they passed through Jordan under Joshua, after the death of Moses. Now we have here, I. The fright which the Moabites were in upon the approach of Israel, Num 22:2-4.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 22:10: Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt,.... In this, and the following part of the verse, he faithfully and punctually relates the words of Balak to him by his messengers, as well knowing he could not deceive the omniscient God, or hide anything from him, though he could deceive men; and conceal the truth from them, to serve a purpose; See Gill on Num 22:5, Num 22:6. .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 22:2-21: Num 22:2-21 The rapid defeat of the two mighty kings of the Amorites filled the Moabites with such alarm at the irresistible might of Israel, that Balak their king, with the princes of Midian, sought to bring the powers of heathen magic to bear against the nation of God; and to this end he sent messengers with presents to Balaam, the celebrated soothsayer, in Mesopotamia...