WHEN BALAK HEARD that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at Ar, a city on the Arnon River at the border of Moab. Balak said to him, “Why didn’t you come when I sent for the first time? Did you think

THEN THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon to say: “Let us pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road and go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not