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.
Balak took Balaam; and brought him up into the high places of Baal, х baamowt (H1116)] - eminences consecrated to the worship of Baal-peor (Numbers 25:3) or Chemosh. From a comparison of Numbers 21:18-20; Joshua 13:17; Isaiah 15:2, Hengstenberg declares it as his opinion that 'Bamoth Baal is, in all probability, the mountain on the south side of the Waleh, distant about one hour from Dibon, a town in the Amoritish territory (Numbers 21:30; Numbers 33:45), and on the summit of which is a very beautiful plain.' Kurtz disputes the soundness of this conclusion, on the ground that it does not consist with the following clause --
That thence he might see the utmost part of the people х qªtseeh (H7097)]. Hengstenberg interprets this, an end, a portion of them. But Gesenius, followed by Kurtz, renders it, the uttermost - i:e., the whole people, even to the extremities.