Numbers Chapter 22 verse 15 Holy Bible
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
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So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.
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Then sent Balak yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
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And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
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And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
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Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
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And Balak addeth yet to send princes, more numerous and honoured than these,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - More, and more honourable than they. Balak rightly judged that Balaam was not really unwilling to come, and that it was only needful to ply him with more flattery and larger promises. The heathens united a firm belief in the powers of the seer with a very shrewd appreciation of the motives and character of the seer. Compare the saying of Sophocles ('Antig.,' 1055), τὸ μαντικὸν γὰρ πᾶν φιλάργυρον γένος.