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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 23:28

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jeshimon;   Peor;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balaam;   Peor;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peor;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Desert;   Jeshimon;   Peor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - High Places;   Jeshimon;   Peor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeshimon;   Peor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Jeshimon;   Kibroth-Hattaavah;   Moab, Moabites;   Peor;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baalpeor ;   Jeshimon ;   Peor ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Peor;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pe'or;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baal (1);   Beth-Peor;   Jeshimon;   Moses;   Peor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baal-Peor;   Beth-Peor;   High Place;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
Update Bible Version
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
English Revised Version
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
New Century Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, the mountain that looks over the desert.
New English Translation
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looketh towards Jeshimon.
World English Bible
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
Amplified Bible
So Balak brought Balaam to the top of [Mount] Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne Balaach hadde led hym out on the `cop of the hil of Phegor, that biholdith the wildirnesse,
Young's Literal Translation
And Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
Berean Standard Bible
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Contemporary English Version
So he took Balaam to Mount Peor overlooking the desert north of the Dead Sea.
American Standard Version
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
Bible in Basic English
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Balac brought Balaam vnto the toppe of Peor, that looketh towarde Iesimon.
Complete Jewish Bible
Balak took Bil‘am to the top of P‘or, overlooking the desert.
Darby Translation
And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks over the surface of the waste.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Balak led Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, which looks out over the desert.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
King James Version (1611)
And Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Ieshimon.
New Life Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which looks over the desert.
New Revised Standard
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Balak took Balaam, - unto the head of Peor, that looketh over the face of the Jeshimon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Ieshmon.
George Lamsa Translation
Then Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward Ashimon.
Good News Translation
So he took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor overlooking the desert.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
Revised Standard Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Pe'or, that overlooks the desert.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.
Hebrew Names Version
Balak took Bil`am to the top of Pe`or, that looks down on the desert.
King James Version
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward jeshimon.
Lexham English Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.
Literal Translation
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward the wilderness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he brought him vp to the toppe of mount Peor, yt boweth towarde the wyldernesse.
New American Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
New King James Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland. [fn]
New Living Translation
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

Contextual Overview

13Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.” 14So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.” 16The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then he said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.” 17So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?” 18Balaam proclaimed his poem: 19God is not a man, that he might lie,or a son of man, that he might change his mind.Does he speak and not act,or promise and not fulfill? 20I have indeed received a command to bless;since he has blessed, I cannot change it. 21He considers no disaster for Jacob;he sees no trouble for Israel.The Lord their God is with them,and there is rejoicing over the King among them. 22God brought them out of Egypt;he is like the horns of a wild ox for them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeshimon: Numbers 21:20

Reciprocal: Isaiah 16:12 - when Ezekiel 21:21 - to use

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor,.... The name of an high mountain in Moab, so called from a gap or opening in it; here the idol Baal was worshipped, and from hence had the name of Baalpeor,

Numbers 25:3 and here, very probably, was a temple built to the honour of him, called Bethpeor, the house or temple of Baalpeor, Deuteronomy 34:6,

that looketh towards Jeshimon; as Pisgah also did, and very likely it was not far from it, since from thence they came hither,

Numbers 23:14. Jeshimon is the same with Bethjesimoth, and so the Targum of Jonathan here calls it, a part of the plains of Moab, where Israel lay encamped, Numbers 33:49 so that from hence Balaam could have a full view of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The position of Peor northward from Pisgah, along the Abarim heights, is approximately determined by the extant notices of Beth-peor.

Jeshimon - was the waste, in the great valley below, where stood Beth-jeshimoth, “the house of the wastes.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:28. 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.


 
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