Discovery BoxNumbers 21:21 
Context21:21 1 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 2
Numbers 22:15
Context22:15 Balak again sent princes, 3 more numerous and more distinguished than the first. 4
Numbers 24:12
Context24:12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
1 sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.
2 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”
3 tn The construction is a verbal hendiadys. It uses the Hiphil preterite of the verb “to add” followed by the Qal infinitive “to send.” The infinitive becomes the main verb, and the preterite an adverb: “he added to send” means “he sent again.”
4 tn Heb “than these.”
