Balaam. So written after the Greek. In Hebrew bis name is Bil'am. Compare Joshua 13:22 with Joshua 24:9; Joshua 24:10. 2Pe 2:15, 2 Peter 2:16. He was. spiritist or medium. He is identified by Sayce with Bela, Genesis 36:31; Genesis 36:32, where Moses incorporates. list of Edomite kings. According to the Tel-el-Amama tablets he was. Hittite chieftain, who established. kingdom for himself: and he died fighting against Israel by the side of his Midianite allies (Numbers 31:8; Joshua 13:22).
his people: i.e. whom he had banded together and led. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "sons of Ammon".