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.
22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported 2 to him the words of Balak.
1 tn The word is simply “company,” but in the context he must mean a vast company – a horde of people.
2 tn Heb “spoke.”