Bilangan 23:4

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Maka Allah menemui Bileam, lalu Bileam berkata kepada-Nya: "Ketujuh mezbah itu telah kuatur, dan kupersembahkan seekor lembu jantan dan seekor domba jantan di atas setiap mezbah."

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Maka Allah menemui Bileam, lalu Bileam berkata kepada-Nya: "Ketujuh mezbah itu telah kuatur, dan kupersembahkan seekor lembu jantan dan seekor domba jantan di atas setiap mezbah."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka bertemulah Bileam dengan Allah, lalu sembahnya kepada-Nya: Bahwa hamba telah mendirikan tujuh buah mezbah dan di atas tiap-tiap mezbah itu hamba telah mempersembahkan seekor lembu muda dan seekor domba jantan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Numbers 23:16, Numbers 22:9, Numbers 22:20

I have prepared: Numbers 23:1, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:4, Matthew 20:12, Luke 18:12, John 16:2, Romans 3:27, Ephesians 2:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - met 1 Kings 13:11 - an old prophet 2 Kings 10:16 - Come with me 1 Chronicles 15:26 - bullocks

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God met Balaam,.... Not in a kind and gracious manner; not out of any respect to him and his offerings; not to indulge him with any spiritual communion with him; nor to communicate his mind and will to him as a friend of his; not to gratify his desires, and grant the request of the king of Moab, or to smile upon and succeed the scheme that they had concerted; but for the sake of his people Israel, to counterwork the designs of their enemies; to blast and confound them, and turn their curses into blessings; and particularly to oblige Balaam to bless the people he was so desirous of cursing for the sake of gain:

and he said unto him; in a bragging boasting way, in order to gain his favour, and carry his point:

I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram: that is, to him the Lord; for had they been offered to Baal, he could never have had the nerve to have spoken of them to God; and which he could never have proposed as a reason why he should be regarded by him, or expect on account of them any favour from him: and indeed these altars and sacrifices were not at his expense, though they were prepared and offered at a motion of his; nor were they offered in a right manner, nor with a right end, nor from a right principle, and were far from being acceptable unto God, yea, were abominable unto him; see Proverbs 21:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God met Balaam - God served His own purposes through the arts of Balaam, and manifested His will through the agencies employed to seek it, dealing thus with Balaam in an exceptional manner. To God’s own people auguries were forbidden Leviticus 19:26.

I have prepared seven altars - And therefore Balaam expected that God on His part would do what was desired by the donor; compare Numbers 22:15 note.