Bilangan 23:3

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Sesudah itu berkatalah Bileam kepada Balak: "Berdirilah di samping korban bakaranmu, tetapi aku ini hendak pergi; mungkin TUHAN akan datang menemui aku, dan perkataan apapun yang dinyatakan-Nya kepadaku, akan kuberitahukan kepadamu." Lalu pergilah ia ke atas sebuah bukit yang gundul.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Sesudah itu berkatalah Bileam kepada Balak: "Berdirilah di samping korban bakaranmu, tetapi aku ini hendak pergi; mungkin TUHAN akan datang menemui aku, dan perkataan apapun yang dinyatakan-Nya kepadaku, akan kuberitahukan kepadamu." Lalu pergilah ia ke atas sebuah bukit yang gundul.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah Bileam kepada Balak: Tuanku apalah berdiri hampir dengan korban bakaran tuanku, maka patik hendak pergi, barangkali patik bertemu dengan Tuhan, maka firman yang akan dinyatakan-Nya kepada patik, ia itu patik sampaikan kelak kepada tuanku. Hata, maka pergilah ia ke tempat yang tinggi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Stand: Numbers 23:15

burnt: Genesis 8:20, Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:7, Genesis 22:8, Genesis 22:13, Exodus 18:12, Leviticus 1:1

peradventure: Numbers 23:15, Numbers 22:8, Numbers 22:9, Numbers 22:31-35, Numbers 24:1

went to an high place: or, went solitary

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - met Leviticus 1:3 - a burnt Numbers 22:12 - thou shalt not curse Numbers 22:17 - and I will do Numbers 23:6 - General Joshua 24:10 - General 1 Timothy 1:16 - for this

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balaam said unto Balak, stand by thy burnt offering,.... By which it appears that the sacrifices offered were of this sort, and there might be one, which was more peculiarly the burnt offering of Balak; though he might be more or less with Balaam concerned in them all; at which he was directed to stand while it was burning, presenting that and himself to the Lord, that he would have respect to both:

and I will go; depart from thence, at some little distance, unto some private place:

peradventure the Lord will come to meet me; upon the offering of these sacrifices to him, though he could not be certain of it, he having lately shown some displeasure and resentment unto him; and this was also in the daytime, when it was in the night he usually came unto him:

and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee; the whole of it, truly as it is, whether agreeable or not:

and he went to an high place; but he was in one already, and therefore if this is the sense of the word, he must go to another, into a grove in one of the high places, where he might be retired, and so fit for a divine converse; and the Targum of Onkelos renders it alone: but rather the sense is, that he went into a plain, as De Dieu has shown from the use of the word in the Syriac language; he was upon a high place, and he went down from thence into the plain, perhaps into a cave at the bottom of the hill, a retired place, where he hoped the Lord would meet him, as he did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balaam apparently expected to mark some phenomenon in the sky or in nature, which he would be able, according to the rules of his art, to interpret as a portent. It was for such “auguries” (not as the King James Version “enchantments” Numbers 23:23) that he now departed to watch; contrast Numbers 24:1.

An high place - Or, “A bare place on the hill,” as opposed to the high place with its grove of trees.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:3. Stand by thy burnt-offering — We have already seen that blessing and cursing in this way were considered as religious rites, and therefore must be always preceded by sacrifice. See this exemplified in the case of Isaac, before he blessed Jacob and Esau, Genesis 27:19; Genesis 27:28-29; Genesis 27:33-40, and the notes there. The venison that was brought to Isaac, of which he did eat, was properly the preparatory sacrifice.