reproach; it is he who counsels the employment of the Moabite women to seduce the Hebrews (cp. 2 Pet. 2:13–15, Rev. 2:14), and he who fills up what was felt to be lacking in the earlier story by recording that Balaam died in battle in the war of Israel against Midian (31:8, 16, Jos. 13:22). The earliest writers in which the charge of avarice is explicitly made appear to be Philo (De Vit. Mos. i. 48 (Mangey, 123)) and 2 Pet. 2:15f. (cp. Jude 11). It is less vigorously charged against Balaam by Josephus