Because they met you not with bread and with water. — We learn incidentally from this passage how the Moabites and the Ammonites requited the forbearance shown them by the Israelites (Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 2:29). No one not acquainted with the details of Israel’s intercourse with these people on their journey could have written thus.
Because they hired against thee Balaam. — See Numbers 22 and Numbers 31:16, and Numbers 25.