1. Then the Israelites moved and set up camp across from Jericho, on the plains of Moab east of the Jordan River.
2. Balak, son of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
3. The Moabites were very afraid because there were so many Israelites. Besides, the Moabites couldn’t stand these people.
4. So the Moabites said to the leaders of Midian, “All those people will eventually eat up everything around us the same way an ox eats up the grass in a field.”At that time Balak, son of Zippor, was king of Moab.