Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. New Living Translation So Balak took Balaam to the plateau of Zophim on Pisgah Peak. He built seven altars there and offered a young bull and a ram on each altar. English Standard Version And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Berean Standard Bible So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. King James Bible And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. New King James Version So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. New American Standard Bible So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. NASB 1995 So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. NASB 1977 So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Legacy Standard Bible So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Amplified Bible So he took Balaam to the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Christian Standard Bible So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Holman Christian Standard Bible So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. American Standard Version And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he led him to a field of the Watchmen to the top of Ramtha, and he built seven altars and offered up bulls and rams on the altars. Brenton Septuagint Translation And he took him to a high place of the field to the top of the quarried rock, and he built there seven altars, and offered a calf and a ram on every altar. Contemporary English Version So he took Balaam to a field on top of Mount Pisgah where lookouts were stationed. Then he built seven altars there and sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one. Douay-Rheims Bible And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram, English Revised Version And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. GOD'S WORD® Translation So he took him to the Field of Zophim on top of Mount Pisgah, where he built seven altars. He offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Good News Translation He took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Mount Pisgah. There also he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them. International Standard Version So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, and from there to the top of Mount Pisgah, where he built seven altars and then offered a bull and a ram on each altar. JPS Tanakh 1917 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. Literal Standard Version and he takes him [to] the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and builds seven altars, and offers a bullock and a ram on the altar. Majority Standard Bible So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. New American Bible So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them. NET Bible So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. New Revised Standard Version So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah. He built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. New Heart English Bible He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. Webster's Bible Translation And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. World English Bible He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. Young's Literal Translation and he taketh him to the field of Zophim, unto the top of Pisgah, and buildeth seven altars, and offereth a bullock and a ram on the altar. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Balaam's Second Oracle13Then 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—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.” 14So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”… Cross References Numbers 23:13 Then 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--not all of them. And from there, curse them for me." Numbers 23:15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there." Deuteronomy 3:27 Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan. Treasury of Scripture And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Pisgah. Numbers 21:20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon. Deuteronomy 3:27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. Deuteronomy 4:49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. built seven Numbers 23:1,2,29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams… Isaiah 1:10,11 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah… Isaiah 46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. Jump to Previous Altar Altars Buildeth Built Bull Bullock Country Male Offered Offereth Offering Ox Pisgah Ram Seven Sheep Top Watchmen's ZophimJump to Next Altar Altars Buildeth Built Bull Bullock Country Male Offered Offereth Offering Ox Pisgah Ram Seven Sheep Top Watchmen's ZophimNumbers 23 1. Balak's sacrifices(14) The field of Zophim.--i.e., of watchers. Tne spot seems to be identified with that from which Moses afterwards surveyed the promised land (Deuteronomy 3:27), and which is described in Deuteronomy 34:1 as "the mountain of Nebo," or Mount Nebo. It is possible, however, that Pisgah may have had more than one of such summits.Verse 14. - The field of Zophim, i.e., of the watchers. Probably a well-known outlook. To the top of Pisgah. They followed apparently on the track of their enemies (see on Numbers 21:20). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew So Balak took himוַיִּקָּחֵ֙הוּ֙ (way·yiq·qā·ḥê·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 3947: To take to the field שְׂדֵ֣ה (śə·ḏêh) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7704: Field, land of Zophim, צֹפִ֔ים (ṣō·p̄îm) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 6839: Zophim -- 'watchers', a field on the summit of Mount Pisgah to the אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to top רֹ֖אשׁ (rōš) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7218: The head of Pisgah, הַפִּסְגָּ֑ה (hap·pis·gāh) Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 6449: Pisgah -- 'cleft', a mountain in Moab where he built וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ (way·yi·ḇen) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1129: To build seven שִׁבְעָ֣ה (šiḇ·‘āh) Number - masculine singular Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number altars מִזְבְּחֹ֔ת (miz·bə·ḥōṯ) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4196: An altar and offered וַיַּ֛עַל (way·ya·‘al) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively a bull פָּ֥ר (pār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6499: Young bull, steer and a ram וָאַ֖יִל (wā·’a·yil) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 352: Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree on each altar. בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃ (bam·miz·bê·aḥ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4196: An altar Links Numbers 23:14 NIVNumbers 23:14 NLT Numbers 23:14 ESV Numbers 23:14 NASB Numbers 23:14 KJV Numbers 23:14 BibleApps.com Numbers 23:14 Biblia Paralela Numbers 23:14 Chinese Bible Numbers 23:14 French Bible Numbers 23:14 Catholic Bible OT Law: Numbers 23:14 He took him into the field (Nu Num.) |