Konteks 22:2 Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.
[21:17]1tn After the adverb “then” the prefixed conjugation has the preterite force. For the archaic constructions, see D. N. Freedman, “Archaic Forms in Early Hebrew Poetry,” ZAW 72 (1960): 101-7. The poem shows all the marks of being ancient.