Balak Stages Kiriath-Huzoth's Crowds to Goad Balaam

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Balak 15:1

Curated by Arthur·Translated by Maggid (Beta)·

(Numbers 22:39:) "Then Balaam went to Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth." For he made markets of buying and selling, and he made a bazaar, in order to show him crowds of people, so as to say: What are these coming to kill? Children and infants who have not sinned against them!

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DeceptionSinProphecyWarHeresy

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