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numbers 22:4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this horde will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
4. elders of Midian--called kings
(Nu 31:8)
and princes
(Jos 13:21).
The Midianites, a distinct people on the southern frontier of Moab,
united with them as confederates against Israel, their common
enemy.