Numbers 22:41

utmost

"Utmost part," etc, means the end of the encampment, the "fourth part of Israel" (Numbers 23:10). Balak's thought, as Grant (following Keil) points out, was not at all to permit Balaam to see the whole of the Hebrew host. In bringing Balaam to Pisgah (Numbers 22:13); (Numbers 22:14). Balak corrects what, evidently, he thought a blunder. (Numbers 23:13); (Numbers 23:14). But when the hireling sees the whole camp he must utter a grander word than before, "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob," and that with the nation in full view! What an illustration of the truth of (Romans 4:5).