Balaam's fate — Also Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, the children of Israel killed with the sword among the slain. Balaam, the famous soothsayer from the pre-conquest era who blessed Israel when hired to curse, is noted as killed in the Transjordan conflicts. His death, though previously mentioned in Numbers 31, is reiterated to establish that all Canaanite and foreign powers are eliminated from the settled territories.

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