Balaam

Balaam, son of Beor, the man with the open eye, was someone in the Book of Numbers. Balaam came from Midian. King Balak of Moab hired Balaam to curse the Israelites but Balaam accidentally blessed them with blessings instead.

Balaam Media

Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836
The Prophet Balaam and the Angel by John Linnell (1859)
Drawing of fragments of the Deir Alla inscription

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