Bilangan 16:2

16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders ¹  of the community, chosen from the assembly, ²  famous men. ³ 

Bilangan 22:13-14

22:13 So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, ⁴  for the Lord has refused to permit me to go ⁵  with you.” 22:14 So the princes of Moab departed ⁶  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

Bilangan 22:40

22:40 And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some ⁷  to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

Bilangan 23:6

23:6 So he returned to him, and he was still ⁸  standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

[16:2]  ¹ tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).

[16:2]  ² tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.

[16:2]  ³ tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”

[22:13]  ⁴ tc The LXX adds “to your lord.”

[22:13]  ⁵ tn The main verb is the Piel perfect, “he has refused.” This is followed by two infinitives. The first (לְתִתִּי, lÿtitti) serves as a complement or direct object of the verb, answering the question of what he refused to do – “to give me.” The second infinitive (לַהֲלֹךְ, lahalokh) provides the object for the preceding infinitive: “to grant me to go.”

[22:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “rose up.”

[22:40]  ⁷ sn The understanding is that Balak was making a sacrifice for a covenant relationship, and so he gave some of the meat to the men and to the seer.

[23:6]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text draws the vividness of the scene with the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) – Balaam returned, and there he was, standing there.