Teks -- Numbers 23:14 (NET)

23:14 So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Num 23:13-15 - Come, . . . with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them

Surprised and disappointed at this unexpected eulogy on Israel, Balak hoped that, if seen from a different point of observation, the prophet would give utterance to different feelings; and so, having made the same solemn preparations, Balaam retired, as before, to wait the divine afflatus.

JFB: Num 23:14 - he brought him into the field of Zophim . . . top of Pisgah

A flat surface on the summit of the mountain range, which was cultivated land. Others render it "the field of sentinels," an eminence where some of Balak's guards were posted to give signals [CALMET].

TSK: Num 23:14 - Pisgah // built seven

Pisgah : or, the hill, Num 21:20; Deu 3:27 *marg. Deu 4:49, Deu 34:1 *marg.

built seven : Num 23:1, Num 23:2, Num 23:29; Isa 1:10, Isa 1:11, Isa 46:6; Hos 12:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Num 23:14 - Zophim

Zophim a place so called from the spies and watches which were kept there. Pisgah, a high hill in the land of Moab, so called Deu 3:27 34:1 .

Haydock: Num 23:14 - Place

Place. Hebrew sede tsohpim, or "the field of the sentinels." (Chaldean) Such were commonly stationed on the top of high hills, to give notice, by kindling a fire, &c., of the approach of an enemy, Isaias xxi. 11., and Jeremias vi. 1. (Calmet)

Gill: Num 23:14 - And he brought him into the field of Zophim // to the top of Pisgah

And he brought him into the field of Zophim,.... Or Sede Tzophim, as Hillerus ⁱ reads it, so called from the watch tower, and watchmen in it: Jarchi says, it was a high place, where a watchman stood to observe if an army came against a city, and so a very proper place to take a view of the armies of Israel from:

to the top of Pisgah; a high hill in this place, where perhaps the watch tower was, or, however, the watchman stood: this looked towards Jeshimon or Bethjesimoth, in the plain of Moab, where Israel lay encamped, see Num 21:20, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar: as he had done before, Num 23:2.