New Revised Standard Version
On the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal; and from there he could see part of the people of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
The next morning, Balak took Balaam to the town of Bamoth-Baal. From there, Balaam could see some of the Israelites.

New American Bible
The next morning Balak took Balaam up on Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see some of the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.

And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.

high places.

Numbers 21:19,20 From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth. . . .

evidently not far from Baal-meon, in the mountains of Abarim; for the Israelites were not encamped in the plains of Moab, which these mountains overlook. Baal, which signifies a lord or governor, was a name common to many idols; and probably here was the same as Chemosh, the god of Moab.

Numbers 25:2,3 Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

2 Chronicles 11:15 And he made to himself priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

Jeremiah 48:35 And I will take away from Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and that sacrificeth to his gods.

utmost

Numbers 23:13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.