Numbers 23:29

“And Balaam said unto Balak, etc.] Being willing to try again what could be done, and to gratify the king, and especially to get the wages of unrighteousness, if possible, which he dearly loved, as the apostle says, (<610215>2 Peter 2:15) build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams; which had been done in two places before, (<042301>Numbers 23:1,14) the same sort of creatures, and the same number here as there, and these only clean creatures, such as were used in sacrifice by the true worshippers of God, and which, no doubt, Balaam had knowledge of, and therefore judged that those would be most acceptable to the Lord.”

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“He takes the seer "to the top of Peor, which looks over the face of the desert" (Jeshimon: see at Num 21:20), and therefore was nearer to the camp of the Israelites. Mount Peor was one peak of the northern part of the mountains of Abarim by the town of Beth-peor, which afterwards belonged to the Reubenites ( Jos 13:20), and opposite to which the Israelites were encamped in the steppes of Moab ( Deu 3:29; Deu 4:46). According to Eusebius (Onom. s. v. Φογώρ), Peor was above Libias (i.e., Bethharam), (Note: Ὑυπέρκειται δὲ τῆς νῦν Λιβαίδος καλουμένης. Jerome has "in supercilio Libiados.") which was situated in the valley of the Jordan; and according to the account given under Araboth…”