Numbers 22:10 Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent word to me, I find it kind of funny that the king of Moab would go to an believer in the God of Israel to put a curse of the people of the God of Israel. Was Balaam an Israelite? Or was he a believer from another way. When Abraham meets Melchizedech, Melchizedech rules over a city and he is a priest of the Most High, implying that his city is also God-fearing. Clearly there were other cities and nations that believed in the One True God, YHWH. We just don’t have their story because God chose Israel to be His people. So, maybe this man was from a city ruled by someone like Melchizedech, who believed in God. And perhaps the king of Moab didn’t realize that the God was the same. Either way, it doesn’t end well for the King of Moab. Application? I have no idea. Perhaps it’s just the knowledge that Israel wasn’t necessarily the only group of people who believed in God. Certainly, Yeshua the Messiah came to Israel and the others wouldn’t have necessarily known about that part of the story, but we catch glimpses of the bigger world through the perspective of Israel.