Bible Location
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Pethor was Balaam's home on the Euphrates in the north-east. It is important because it places the Balaam episode within a wider international world beyond Moab and Israel. First appears in Num 22:5.1
AI summary: Pethor matters because Balaam is drawn from a distant Mesopotamian setting into Israel's story. The long geographic reach of Balak's summons highlights both the seriousness of the threat and the wider recognition of spiritual power. The cross references present Pethor as a far-off Euphrates city tied to blessing, cursing, and divine overruling.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.