Balak
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
king Balak
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The biblical king who hired Balaam to curse Israel, referenced in the analogy to Nachor's situation.
For when the initiates of the idols and Nachor came to words with one another — Nachor like another Balaam, who once, in the time of Balak, having set out to curse Israel, blessed him with manifold blessings — so too Nachor strongly withstood the unwise and senseless wise men.
Adversus Marcionem
The Moabite king who hires Balaam to curse Israel.
Balaam the prophet in Numbers, summoned by king Balak to curse Israel, with which he was entering battle, while he was being filled with the spirit, pronounced not the malediction to which he had come, but the benediction which the spirit suggested to him in that very hour — having professed before, among the king's messengers, and presently before the king himself, that he would pronounce what Go …