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Balak son of Zippor (Hebrew: בָּלָק Bālāq) [1] was a king of Moab described in the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, where his dealings with the prophet and sorcerer Balaam are recounted. Balak tried to engage Balaam the son of Beor for the purpose of cursing the migrating Israelite community. [ 2 ]
Coastal Landscape with Balaam and the Ass (1636 painting by Bartholomeus Breenbergh). Balak (בָּלָק —Hebrew for "Balak," a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Numbers.
According to a story recorded in Numbers 22–24, Balak, King of Moab, received and entertained the soothsayer Balaam here, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the "mountains of the east," beyond the Euphrates, to lay a curse upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting.
The excavation revealed a multiple-chamber structure that had been destroyed by an earthquake during the Persian period, on the wall of which was written a story relating visions of Bal'am, son of Be'or, a "seer of the gods" (BL M BR B R Š ḤZH LHN), the same name as Balaam, son of Be'or, in Numbers 22–24 and in other passages of the Bible.
The name of the Balak tribe came from the area that they inhabit. [3] The earliest mention of Balak tribe comes from a 14th-century book, Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar, authored by the Arab geographer Ibn Fadl Allah Al-'Omari, the name Balak is said to be derived from Balakan village [4] in Northern Kurdistan. Balakan means "Home of the ...
In 1124, he was invited to defend Tyre, the only port the Muslims used in Syria against the attacking Crusaders.In the meantime, Belek was besieging Manbij, after he imprisoned its emir Hassan al-Ba'labakki ibn Gümüshtigin who pledged allegiance to Joscelin I, [6] in which he managed to capture the city but the castle was still controlled by the defenders led by Hassan's brother Isa. [7]
The term tidung in Tarakan language of the Tidung people literally means "hill" or "hill people".As with many other tribes of the Malay Archipelago, the term tidung is a collective term used to describe many closely related indigenous groups.
He was the head of the confederacy of Moab, Ammon and Amalek in their assault on Israel. [2] Eglon reigned over the Israelites for 18 years. [3] One day, Ehud, who was left handed, came presenting a customary tribute and tricked Eglon and stabbed him with his sword, but when Ehud attempted to draw the sword back out, the obese king's excess fat prevented its retrieval.