Why Balak Led Balaam Up to the High Places of Baal

(Numbers 22:41:) "So it came to pass in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal." Balak was a master of divinations and auguries more than Balaam, for Balaam was dragged along after him like a blind man. To what were the two of them alike? To someone who had a knife in his hand but did not recognize the joints, and his companion recognized the joints but had no knife in his hand. Balak saw the places in which Israel would fall, and "he brought him up to the high places of Baal" — this is Baal Peor, for he saw that Israel would fall there.