How goodly. Figure of speech Thaumasmos. App-6. This is only in "the vision of the Almighty".
Jacob. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), put for posterity (App-6).
And. This not to be in italics, according to some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Syriac, and Vulgate.
Israel. See note on "Jacob", Numbers 24:5.
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...
_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....
DISCOURSE: 175 BALAAM’S THIRD ATTEMPT TO CURSE ISRAEL Numbers 24:5; Numbers 24:9. _How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! — — — Blessed is he that blesseth thee; and cursed...
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...
_HOW GOODLY ARE THY TENTS, O JACOB, AND THY TABERNACLES, O ISRAEL!_ How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! - a fine burst of admiration, expressed in highly poetical strains. All travelers describe the b...
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
מַה ־טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֑ב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃...
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...
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...
5._How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! _The internal condition of prosperity enjoyed by the people is described by various similitudes akin to each other, and expressive of the same thing. He compares...
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...
HOW GOODLY ARE THY TENTS, O JACOB,.... Not that the matter of which they were made was so rich, or their structure so admirable, but the order in which they were placed was so beautiful and agreeable:...
_How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel!_ Ver. 5. _How goodly are thy tents._] It fareth with a hypocrite, as with a surveyor of lands, that taketh an exact compass of oth...
_How goodly are thy tents_, &c. Having seen them pitched in the plains of Moab, (Numbers 24:2,) he thus breaks forth into admiration of their beautiful order, as they lay ranged under their several st...
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...
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Numbers 24:5 lovely H2895 (H8804) tents H168 Jacob H3290 dwellings H4908 Israel H3478...
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
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 24:5 This picture of Israel’s future success in Canaan uses imagery from the garden of Eden (see Genesis 2:9)....
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...