Numbers 22:4

22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “Now this mass of people ¹  will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

Numbers 25:18

25:18 because they bring trouble to you by their treachery with which they have deceived ²  you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, ³  their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague that happened as a result of Peor.”

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¹ tn The word is simply “company,” but in the context he must mean a vast company – a horde of people.

² tn This is the same word as that translated “treachery.”

³ sn Cozbi’s father, Zur, was one of five Midianite kings who eventually succumbed to Israel (Num 31:8). When the text gives the name and family of a woman, it is asserting that she is important, at least for social reasons, among her people.