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Verse Numbers 24:7. _HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS, C._]
Here is a very plain allusion to their method of raising water in
different parts of the East. By the _well_ a tall pole is erect...
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Balaam’s native soil was ordinarily irrigated by water fetched from
the neighboring Euphrates, and carried in buckets suspended from the
two ends of a pole. Thus the metaphor would import that Israel...
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THE PARABLES OF BALAAM
Chapter S 23-24
_ 1. The first parable (Numbers 23:1)_
2. Balak's surprise and Balaam's answer (Numbers 23:11)
3. At Zophim (Numbers 23:13)
4. The second parable
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BALAAM'S THIRD ORACLE. This varies the tenor of the two previous
utterances by dwelling upon the fertility of Israel's soil, and the
eminence of its ruler. It was probably constructed, like the preced...
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POUR THE WATER. This refers to Millennial blessings. See Ezekiel 4.
and Zechariah 14....
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_Balaam's first prophetic message_. In its present form this consists
of nine couplets and two triplets. But the text has undergone
corruption, and perhaps there were originally eleven couplets....
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The first two lines are difficult and perhaps corrupt. Some explain
them as a description of the luxuriance of Israel's future home.
Israel is pictured as a man carrying buckets to water his crop; and...
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HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS, &C.— Very different are
the interpretations given to this obscure passage. 1. The LXX render
the Hebrew widely different from our translation; _a man shall...
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G. THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM (NUMBERS 24:1-9)
TEXT
Numbers 24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless
Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but
he set his fa...
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_HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS, AND HIS SEED SHALL BE IN
MANY WATERS, AND HIS KING SHALL BE HIGHER THAN AGAG, AND HIS KINGDOM
SHALL BE EXALTED._
He shall pour the water out of his bucket...
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BALAAM (CONTINUED)
1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 24
BALAAM’S THIRD *PROPHECY – NUMBERS 24:1-14
V1 Balaam realised that the *LORD wanted to *bless the *Israe
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HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS. — Better, _Water shall
flow from his buckets;_ or, _he shall flow with water from his
buckets._ The nation is personified as a man carrying two buckets full...
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יִֽזַּל ־מַ֨יִם֙ מִ דָּ֣לְיָ֔ו וְ
זַרְעֹ֖ו בּ
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BALAAM'S PARABLES
Numbers 22:39, Numbers 24:1
THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of
the Hebrew tribes in the plain of the Jordan is fully visible. At
Kiriath-huzoth,...
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BALAAM'S VISION OF ISRAEL'S PROSPERITY
Numbers 24:1
In these remarkable words Balaam describes the condition and prospects
of God's people. They reveal the innermost thought which even a bad,
double-...
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From the closing sentences in chapter twenty-three we learn that
Balaam was taken to yet another place of vision, from whence he looked
on the desert. The Spirit of God came upon him and again he utte...
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He shall pour the (d) water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall
be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than (e) Agag, and
his kingdom shall be exalted.
(d) His prosperity and posterity...
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Waters. Septuagint, Chaldean, and Syriac, "From his seed a man shall
spring, who shall have dominion over many nations." This must be
understood of the Messias; or, his posterity shall be very numerou...
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If those beautiful words be considered prophetically as undoubtedly
they were intended, what a volume of rich mercies, both temporal and
spiritual, is contained in them. The Israel of GOD shall prevai...
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The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their
neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a
striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
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7._And his king shall be higher than Agag. _He now begins to enlarge
on their outward prosperity, viz., that the people of Israel shall be
powerful and flourishing, and endowed with a warlike spirit t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25.
Moab also opposes in vain. Now they are in the plains of Moab, having
only Jordan between them and the land of their rest. But had they a...
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HE SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS,.... That is, God shall
plentifully send down rain out of the clouds upon these valleys,
gardens, and trees, and make them fruitful; and this may be a figure...
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He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall be] in
many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom
shall be exalted.
Ver. 7. _His seed shall be in many waters...
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_He shall pour the water_ That is, God will abundantly water the
valleys, gardens, and tress, which represent the Israelites; he will
wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessings, of...
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1 Balaam leauing diuinations, prophesieth the happinesse of Israel.
10 Balak in anger dismisseth him.
15 He prophesieth of the starre of Iacob, and the destruction of some
nations.
[BALAAM BLESSETH...
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BALAAM'S THIRD PROPHECY
(vs.1-13)
THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
At least Balaam had learned by now that the Lord had the unchangeable
purpose of blessing Israel, so this time he knew it was useless to
seek e...
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1-9 Now Balaam spake not his own sense, but the language of the
Spirit that came upon him. Many have their eyes open who have not
their hearts open; are enlightened, but not sanctified. That knowledg...
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HE, i.e. God, will abundantly water the _valleys, gardens_, and
_trees_, is which represent the Israelites, NUMBERS 24:6, i.e. he will
wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessings, of...
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Numbers 24:7 pour H5140 (H8799) water H4325 buckets H1805 seed H2233
many H7227 waters H4325 king H4428 higher...
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Numbers 24:3 (3a-9)
‘And he took up his incantation (parable), and said,'
Here he begins with what was clearly his normal way of going into deep
trance and follows it with a series of contrasts pres...
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CONTENTS: Balaam foretells prosperity for Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Balaam, Balak.
CONCLUSION: Those who oppose God and His people will sooner or later
be made to see themselves wretchedly deceived....
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Numbers 24:7. _He shall pour the water._ This is a fine prediction of
the increase of Jacob's seed, and of the temporal blessings which
should fall to their lot. Agag, a perpetual name assumed by the...
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_He set his face toward the wilderness._
THE FACE SET TOWARD THE WILDERNESS
Evidently there is a change at this point in Balaam’s method.
Hitherto he has played the soothsayer. At last he confesses h...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 24:1 The mention of the Spirit of God
empowering Balaam (v. Numbers 24:2) shows the validity of Balaam’s
third blessing. Balaam describes himself as the
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 24:7 WATER SHALL FLOW FROM HIS BUCKETS. This
continues the image of well-watered gardens. HIS SEED SHALL BE IN MANY
WATERS. This may refer to the fertility of the land, or to t...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
Numbers 24:1. _To seek for enchantments_. See Notes on Numbers 23:3;
Numbers 23:23.
_He set his face toward the wilderness, i.e._, towards the plains of
Moab, where the...
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NUMBERS 24:1
AS AT OTHER TIMES, or, "as (he had done) time after time." SEPTUAGINT,
κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS. Rather,
"for the meeting with aunties." לִקְמראת נְחַשִׁים.
Septuagint...
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So when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn't
even go up, as the other times before the LORD, [to seek the face or]
to seek for enchantments, but he just set his face towards...
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1 Chronicles 14:2; 1 Kings 4:21; 1 Samuel 15:32; 1 Samuel 15:33;...
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He shall pour the water — That is. God will abundantly water the
valleys, gardens, and trees, which represent the Israelites; he will
wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessings, of...
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How could this oracle refer to Agag when he lived much later, in the
time of Saul?
PROBLEM: The oracle of Balaam makes reference to the exaltation of
Israel over Agag and his kingdom. However, Agag w...