King James Version
Numbers 22:2 in the King James Version says “And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.”
Numbers 22:2 · KJV
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“all that Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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