Numbers 22:4

all that are round about us: Hebrew all our circuits. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject). App-6.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

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⁴ And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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