balak7What Balak is about: a frhtened king and a greedy prophet, a sword-wielding angel and a talking donkey, curses transformed into blessings and a messianic prophecy, aBalak son of Zippor (Hebrew: בָּלָק Bālāq) [1] was a king of Moab described in the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, where his dealings with the prophet and sorcerer Balaam