Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 24:8
Shall break their bones, or, unbone, or, take out, i.e. shall eat the flesh to the very bones, and then break them also.
Shall break their bones, or, unbone, or, take out, i.e. shall eat the flesh to the very bones, and then break them also.
Verse Numbers 24:8. _GOD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF EGYPT_] They were neither _expelled_ thence, nor came _voluntarily_ away. God alone, with a high hand and uplifted arm, brought them forth. Concernin...
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
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...
HIM. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Syriac, read "them". Compare Numbers 23:22. UNICORN. See note on Numbers 23:22....
_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....
The first two lines are identical (with the exception of -him" for -them") with Numbers 23:22 (E); and in both traditions the words follow a reference to Israel's king, and precede the metaphor of the...
GOD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF EGYPT— The meaning of which both here and in chap. Numbers 23:22 is, That as it was God, their guide and king, who with a strong arm brought them forth out of Egypt; so th...
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...
_GOD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF EGYPT; HE HATH AS IT WERE THE STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN: HE SHALL EAT UP THE NATIONS HIS ENEMIES, AND SHALL BREAK THEIR BONES, AND PIERCE THEM THROUGH WITH HIS ARROWS._ He...
24:8 strength (c-13) buffalo. (c-16) See ch. 23.22, Notes e and f. break (d-25) Or 'gnaw.' pieces. (e-36) Or 'shall break their arrows.'...
BALAAM (CONTINUED) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
See on Numbers 23:2. The subject of the second half of the v. is Israel, who is compared to a ravening lion, the king of beasts....
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
GOD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF EGYPT. — (Comp. Numbers 23:22, and Note.)...
אֵ֚ל מֹוצִיאֹ֣ו מִ מִּצְרַ֔יִם כְּ תֹועֲפֹ֥ת...
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...
_Lioness. See ver. 22, 24, of the preceeding chapter. (Haydock) --- This prediction was accomplished under the reigns of David and of Solomon. (Menochius)_...
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...
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...
GOD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF EGYPT, HE HATH AS IT WERE THE STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN,.... Here he repeats what he had said in a former prophecy, Numbers 23:22: he shall eat up the nations his enemies: th...
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce [them] through with his arrows. Ver...
_He shall eat up the nations_, &c. The expressions in these verses are intended to signify the victories which the Israelites should gain over their enemies, and particularly the Canaanites, and the s...
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...
God brought him (Israel) FORTH OUT OF EGYPT; HE HATH, AS IT WERE, THE STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN, of the wild ox, which was noted for its fierceness; HE SHALL EAT UP THE NATIONS, HIS ENEMIES, devour them...
A THIRD BLESSING...
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 24:8 God H410 out H3318 (H8688) Egypt H4714 strength H8443 ox H7214 consume H398 (H8799) nations...
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...
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...
Daniel 6:24; Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42; Deuteronomy 7:1;...