And Balaam saith unto Balak, 'Build for me in this place seven altars, and make ready for me in this place seven bullocks and seven rams.'Numbers 23:1 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleBuild me here seven altars, etc. - The oxen and the rams were such as the Mosaic law had ordered to be offered to God in sacrifice; the building of seven altars was not commanded. Some think that these seven altars were built to the seven planets: this is most gratuitously said; of it there is no proof whatever; it is mere trifling, even with conjecture. As seven was a number of perfection, Balaam chose it on this occasion, because he intended to offer a grand sacrifice, and to offer a bullock and a ram upon each of the altars; the whole to be made a burnt-offering at the same time. And as he intended to offer seven bullocks and seven rams at the same time, it could not be conveniently done on one altar, therefore he ordered seven to be built. We need go no farther to find out his reasons.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
build me
Numbers 23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them...
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward...
seven altars
Exodus 20:24 An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep...
Exodus 27:1 And you shall make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare...
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold...
2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away...
Psalm 50:8,9 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me...
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams...
Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer...
seven oxen
Numbers 29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
1 Chronicles 15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD...
2 Chronicles 29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom...
Job 42:8 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering...
Ezekiel 45:23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD...
Numbers 23:1 Parallel Commentaries
Altars Balak Build Bullocks Bulls Male Oxen Prepare Provide Rams Ready Seven SheepAltars Balak Build Bullocks Bulls Male Oxen Prepare Provide Rams Ready Seven SheepTHE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica®.Numbers 23:1 Mobile Bible
Numbers 23:1 Bible Suite
Numbers 23:1 Biblia Paralela
Numbers 23:1 Chinese Bible
Bible Apps
Bible Hub
