John Gill Commentary Numbers 23:14

"And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar." — Numbers 23:14 (ASV)

And he brought him into the field of Zophim
Or Sede Tzophim, as Hillerus ^F9 reads it, so called from the watch tower, and watchmen in it: Jarchi says, it was a high place, where a watchman stood to observe if an army came against a city, and so a very proper place to take a view of the armies of Israel from:

to the top of Pisgah ;
a high hill in this place, where perhaps the watch tower was, or, however, the watchman stood: this looked towards Jeshimon or Bethjesimoth, in the plain of Moab, where Israel lay encamped, see (Numbers 21:20) (33:49) : and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar: as he had done before, (Numbers 23:2) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F9: Onomastic Sacr. p. 935.