The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab […]
⛓ Read Numbers 22 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Running 'in the error of Balaam for hire' alludes to the prophet Balaam, who coveted Balak's reward and sought to curse Israel. The motif of prophetic greed leading to ruin draws on the Balaam cycle.
High confidenceSupplies the named figures "Balaam" and "Balak" and the master-pupil relationship Revelation assumes ("who taught Balak"). The figural reading — Balaam as archetypal corrupter of God's people for gain — is developed in Second Temple tradition and shared with 2 Peter 2:15 and Jude 11. High.
High confidence