Numbers 22:41 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

utmost

"Utmost part," etc, means the end of the encampment, the "fourth part of Israel" (Numbers 23:10). Balak's thought, as Grant (following Keil) points out, was not at all to permit Balaam to see the whole of the Hebrew host. In bringing Balaam to Pisgah (Numbers 22:13); (Numbers 22:14). Balak corrects what, evidently, he thought a blunder. (Numbers 23:13); (Numbers 23:14). But when the hireling sees the whole camp he must utter a grander word than before, "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob," and that with the nation in full view! What an illustration of the truth of (Romans 4:5-8).

Numbers 22:41

41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.