better then Balak the son of Zippor] Numbers 22:2. Deuteronomy 23:4. Joshua 24:9. That is, hast thou better right, or more power and policy to maintain it, then Balak, who yet never made any such claim, or challenge? ever strive] Namely, to recover this countrey of the Amorites, after the Israelites had conquered it; notwithstanding, that in former times it did belong to the Moabites. Numbers 21:24; Numbers 21:26.