The first is Balak, king of Moab, a small kingdom east of the Land of the Israel. The second is Balaam, a complex person with magical powers who believes in God yet does not surrender to Him quickly.

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Balaam insists time and again that he can only speak what God puts into his mouth. Saddled with this mantra, he becomes a figure of ridicule.

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Chapters 22–24 in Numbers tell the tale of Balaam, a non-Israelite prophet whom the Moabites summon to curse the Israelites.

In addition, both leaders rely on sorcerers – in the case of Pharaoh, the chartumim (magicians); in the case of Balak, the heathen prophet Balaam – to achieve their horrific goal. And in ...

This is German artist Gustav Jaeger’s depiction of Balaam’s donkey protesting that Balaam was beating him when an angel, visible at first only to the donkey, was blocking their way with a ...

Once upon a time, in the days when men were still men and lizards walked in twos, there was a materialistic, covetous fellow called Balaam, for whom the word ‘enough’ didn’t exist at all.