Bilangan 23:13

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Lalu Balak berkata kepadanya: "Baiklah pergi bersama-sama dengan aku ke tempat lain, dan dari sana engkau dapat melihat bangsa itu; engkau akan melihat hanya bagiannya yang paling ujung, tetapi seluruhnya tidak akan kaulihat; serapahlah mereka dari situ bagiku."

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu Balak berkata kepadanya: "Baiklah pergi bersama-sama dengan aku ke tempat lain, dan dari sana engkau dapat melihat bangsa itu; engkau akan melihat hanya bagiannya yang paling ujung, tetapi seluruhnya tidak akan kaulihat; serapahlah mereka dari situ bagiku."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah Balak kepadanya: Marilah engkau sertaku ke tempat yang lain, dari sana engkau dapat melihat dia, supaya engkau melihat hanya ujungnya sahaja, bukan segenap tentaranya sama sekali, lalu kutukilah olehmu akan dia bagiku dari sana.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto: 1 Kings 20:23, 1 Kings 20:28, Micah 6:5

utmost: Numbers 22:41

and curse me: Joshua 24:9, Psalms 109:17, James 3:9, James 3:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:12 - thou shalt not curse Numbers 23:26 - General Numbers 23:27 - Come

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak said unto him,.... Seemingly satisfied with his answer, however, he could not help himself, and was willing to make the best of him he could, and try what he could do with him another time and elsewhere:

come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; for he had a mighty notion that both the sight of the people, and the place from whence they were seen, would greatly contribute to answer the end he had in view, cursing the people:

thou shall see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; for he thought, either that he was so charmed with so glorious a sight as the regular encampment of such a body of people was, that he could not find in his heart to curse them; or that he was so terrified at the sight of such a vast number of people, that he dared not attempt it; and therefore Balak proposed to have him to a place where he could only see a part of them and not the whole:

and curse me them from thence: that part, hoping that when he had cursed them he would gradually go on till he had cursed them all: but there is this objection to our version, and the sense it directs to, that Balaam had been brought to a place already, where he had seen the utmost part of the people, Numbers 22:41 wherefore some read h the middle clause in a parenthesis, and in the past tense "(for thou hast seen but the utmost part of them, and hast not seen them all)"; and therefore would have him come to a place where he might see them all, and curse them from thence.

h So Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balak seems to hope that the prophet’s words in Numbers 23:10 reflected the impression conveyed by the scene before him at the moment of the augury; and so that the sight of a mere few straggling Israelites in the utmost part of the camp might induce a different estimate of their resources and prospects.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:13. Thou shalt see but the utmost part of them — Balak thought that the sight of such an immense camp had intimidated Balaam, and this he might gather from what he said in the tenth verse: Who can count the dust of Jacob, c. he thought therefore that he might get Balaam to curse them in detached parties, till the whole camp should be devoted to destruction by successive execrations.