Numbers 22
The Whole Counsel of God
Fr. Stephen De Young, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, |
| 0:07.2 | The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox |
| 0:13.5 | priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana. |
| 0:23.0 | Okay, chapter 22. |
| 0:29.0 | Now the children of Israel broke camp and camped west of Moab by the Jordan, |
| 0:30.0 | across from Jericho. |
| 0:35.2 | So when Balak, the son of Zippur, saw all that Israel did to the Amarites, |
| 0:37.8 | Balak is the king of... Balak son of Zippur is the current king of Moab. |
| 0:42.9 | So there's going to be a bunch of very similar names here. |
| 0:46.0 | So Balak, king of Moab. |
| 0:48.9 | Not to be confused with Balam, who we're about to read about. |
| 0:52.2 | Not to be confused with Balak, |
| 0:55.0 | who was played by Clint Howard in the episode of the original Star Trek series, the Corbamite maneuver. |
| 0:59.6 | Balak, right, is the king. |
| 1:04.2 | So Balak, the son of Zepur, saw all that Israel did to the Amarites, namely wrecking them, |
| 1:09.2 | and Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because |
| 1:11.9 | they were many. And Moab was irritated because of the children of Israel. I like that. They're |
| 1:18.2 | irritated. Man, getting on my nerves, those Israelites. But notice here how, again, we see |
| 1:26.8 | the king and the nation used interchangeably right the king is |
| 1:31.8 | afraid like oh are they going to turn on us now and moab is irritated that's moab there is also the |
| 1:41.0 | king right is irritated then moab said said to the king. Right. Is there a good time. |
| 1:51.0 | Then Moab said to the elders of Midian, again, this being the king, not like all of the people taking a vote. |
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