Numbers 23:14 (LSB)

Passage

So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Nearby Context

Numbers 23:12 And he replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

Numbers 23:13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, but you will only see the end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23:14 So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:15 And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet Yahweh over there.”

Numbers 23:16 Then Yahweh met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "took", "field", "zophim", "pisgah", "built", "seven", "altars", and "offered". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "took" and "field", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "Then Balak said to him Please come..." into verse 15's "And he said to Balak Stand here...", so "took" and "field" belong inside that flow. In Numbers context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "took" and "field" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.