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Balak, king of Moab, invites the prophet Balaam to come and curse the Israelites for him. Against God‘s warning, Balaam departs, but God places an angel in Balaam’s way. When his donkey swerves from the road, Balaam beats it with his stick. God allows the donkey to speak and allows Balaam to see the angel, and Balaam bows down to the ground.
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.
Against God‘s warning, Balaam departs, but God places an angel in Balaam’s way. When his donkey swerves from the road, Balaam beats it with his stick. God allows the donkey to speak and allows Balaam to see the angel, and Balaam bows down to the ground. The angel tells Balaam: “Go with the men. But you must say nothing except what I tell ...
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. Balaam (/ ˈ b eɪ l æ m /; [1] Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, romanized: Bīlʿām), son of Beor, [2] was a biblical figure, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region of Iraq and northern Syria in what is now southeastern Turkey.
Numbers 22:22–38. The angel of the Lord meets the prophet Balaam on the road. In verse 38, Balaam identifies the angel who spoke to him as delivering the word of God. Judges 2:1–3. The angel of the Lord appears to Israel. Judges 6:11–23.
After his mission with Balaam to curse Israelites failed, Balak decided to ally with Midianites to gather their women in order to lead Israelites men astray in adultery. Sources detailing the story of Balak: Numbers 22–24; Judges 11:25 - This is the only time in the Bible that Balak is not mentioned in direct conjunction with Balaam. Micah 6:5
Chukat, on Numbers 19–21: Red heifer, water from a rock, Miriam's and Aaron's deaths, victories, serpents; Balak, on Numbers 22–25: Balaam's donkey and blessing; Pinechas, on Numbers 25–29: Phinehas, second census, inheritance, Moses' successor, offerings and holidays
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.