offered oxen] Or slew oxen and sheepe. Offering implieth usually sacrificing, though the same word be used also for killing onely; and so the killing might be for a present to entertaine Balaam, and the Princes, and Elders of Moab and Midian together: and as sacrifices to God were attended and followed sometimes with feastings among men; so was it with Idolaters, the Devil and his servants being Apes in imitation of God, and his servants for outward observances. See Numbers 23:1. & Chap. 25. 1, 2.