Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 24:2
According to their tribes; in the order appointed, Num 2. Came upon him, i.e. inspired him to speak the following words, and so constrained him again to bless those whom he desired to curse.
According to their tribes; in the order appointed, Num 2. Came upon him, i.e. inspired him to speak the following words, and so constrained him again to bless those whom he desired to curse.
Verse Numbers 24:2. _THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM._] This Divine afflatus he had not expected on the present occasion, but God had not yet declared the whole of his will....
Balaam gazed over the camp of Israel that stretched before him, and allowed the spectacle to work its own influence upon him....
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
NUMBERS 23:25 TO NUMBERS 24:2. BALAK'S SACRIFICES PRELIMINARY TO BALAAM'S THIRD ORACLE. The scene of these was Peor, some mountain overlooking the desert bordering the Dead Sea on the W. The inconsist...
ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES. Compare Numbers 2. THE SPIRIT OF GOD (Hebrew. _'Elohim)_. This expression occurs eight times outside the books of Samuel (Genesis 1:2; Genesis 41:38;...
Numbers 24:1-2. Balaam knew that Jehovah wished Israel to be blessed; he did not therefore seek an omen to guide him, but began his declaration at once....
THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM— That is, a prophetic influence from God, whereby his mind was inspired to see and foretel future events. Philo and others consider Balaam as merely passive in this aff...
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...
_AND BALAAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND HE SAW ISRAEL ABIDING IN HIS TENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES; AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM._ Balaam lifted up his eyes - a Hebrew phrase for earnest observa...
THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM] cp. 1 Samuel 19:20. The following utterances are introduced in a more solemn manner (see Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15), and are prophetic of the future....
BALAAM (CONTINUED) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
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
ABIDING IN HIS TENTS... — _i.e.,_ encamped according to the order prescribed for the respective tribes. The cognate noun is rendered _tabernacles_ in Numbers 24:5. AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM....
וַ יִּשָּׂ֨א בִלְעָ֜ם אֶת ־עֵינָ֗יו וַ יַּרְא
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,...
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-...
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...
The SPIRIT of GOD came upon him; that is upon him by an overruling, constraining power, so as to prompt to a service his heart would gladly have been excused from; but not in him, in a way of renewing...
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...
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...
AND BALAAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES,.... Being on Mount Peor: AND HE SAW ISRAEL ABIDING IN HIS TENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES; in that exact order in which they were directed to encamp under four standard...
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. Ver. 2. _And the spirit of God came upon him._] A common spirit...
_The Spirit of God came upon him_ And is it likely that the Spirit of God would have come upon a sorcerer or enchanter? A prophetic influence from God came upon him, whereby he was enabled to foresee...
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...
A THIRD BLESSING...
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes, he was near enough to distinguish the various groups as they were arranged in camps about the Tabernacl...
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...
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...
Numbers 24:2 Balaam H1109 raised H5375 (H8799) eyes H5869 saw H7200 (H8799) Israel H3478 encamped H7931 ...
CHAPTER 24 BALAAM'S FINAL FAILED ATTEMPT IS FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS PROPHECIES. Numbers 24:1 ‘And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he did not go not, as at the other times, to mee...
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....
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...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 19:20; 1 Samuel 19:23; 2 Chronicles 15:1;...
Came upon him — Inspired him to speak the following words....