The rendering of AV gives the sense 'it is useless to employ the powers of enchantment against this people; they are proof against all such weapons.' But the right rendering is rather, 'there is no enchantment in Jacob,' i.e. this people has no need to employ magical arts in its defence, as you, Balak, are doing now, for they have God for their protector. According to this time] better, 'at this time,' 'now.'
Verse Numbers 23:23. There is _NO ENCHANTMENT, C._] Because God has determined to save them, therefore no enchantment can prevail against them. _ACCORDING TO THIS TIME, C._] I think this clause shou...
ENCHANTMENT ... DIVINATION - More strictly “augury” and “soothsayer’s token,” or the omen that was superstitiously observed. “Soothsayer” is the term applied to Balaam in Joshua 13:22. The verse intim...
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 SECOND ORACLE. This goes beyond the preceding in frustrating the hopes of Balak, for it declares that God has not only not cursed Israel, but has positively blessed it, and describes Israel's...
_Balaam's second prophetic message_. This consists of eleven, or (see on Numbers 23:23) more probably ten, couplets. Balaam declares that God will never change His mind (as Balak had thought, Numbers...
DISCOURSE: 173 BALAAM’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO CURSE ISRAEL Numbers 23:18. And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: God is not a man, that he sho...
SURELY THERE IS NO ENCHANTMENT AGAINST JACOB, &C.— Here the prophet bursts forth in a noble rapture, and declares to Balak, and the nobles around, that all their impious machinations were in vain agai...
E. BALAAM'S SECOND BLESSING vv. 13-24 TEXT Numbers 23:13. And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from whence thou mayest see them, and shalt not see them all: and curse...
_AND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, RISE UP, BALAK, AND HEAR; HEARKEN UNTO ME, THOU SON OF ZIPPOR:_ _ `Rise up, Balak, and hear! Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippori! God is not a man, that he sho...
23:23 time (g-17) Lit. 'according to the time,' i.e. at the end of the journey the through the wilderness; the Hebrew prefix to the word, meaning 'according to,' makes it a general principle....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 23 BALAAM’S FIRST *PROPHECY – NUMBERS 23:1-12 V1 Balaam said to Balak, ‘Build 7 *altars here. Then bring to
SURELY THERE IS NO ENCHANTMENT AGAINST JACOB... — The verse may be rendered as follows: _For there is no augury in Jacob, and there is no divina-Hon in Israel. At the_ (_set_)_ time it is told to Jaco...
כִּ֤י לֹא ־נַ֨חַשׁ֙ בְּ יַעֲקֹ֔ב וְ לֹא
NO ENCHANTMENT AGAINST ISRAEL Numbers 23:13 Balak was surprised and disappointed. He therefore bethought himself of limiting the seer's vision, so that he might see an attenuated Israel from a height...
The first of Balaam's prophecies was uttered in the midst of strange surroundings. Sacrifices were offered to heathen gods, while Balaam turned aside to inquire of Jehovah. The result was that we hav...
Surely [there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: (k) according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! (k) Consid...
Soothsaying. This may be joined to what goes before, as an explanation why Israel is so much to be feared; because the people have no dealings with the devil, in which case neither he nor all his agen...
These are very precious truths; and doubly so when read with an eye to the evidence they bring with them, as they are in JESUS. In the covenant relationship of GOD in CHRIST, the word, the oath, the p...
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...
23._Surely there is no enchantment. _This passage is commonly expounded as an encomium on the people, because they are not given to enchantments and magical superstitions, as God also had strictly enj...
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...
SURELY THERE IS NO ENCHANTMENT AGAINST JACOB, NEITHER IS THERE ANY DIVINATION AGAINST ISRAEL,.... Balaam here owns, that all his enchantments and divinations signified nothing, and would never prevail...
Surely [there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! Ver. 23. _Sure...
Num. 23:23. "According to this time shall it be said of Jacob, and of Israel, What hath God wrought?" That is, God shall do a very strange and wonderful thing for Jacob and for Israel. Such interrogat...
_No enchantment against Jacob_ Nor against any that truly believe in Christ! _What hath God wrought!_ How wonderful and glorious are those works which God is now about to do for Israel! These things w...
1.13.28 Balaks sacrifice. 7.18 Balaams parable. 1 AND Balaam saide vnto Balak, Build me here seuen Altars, and prepare mee here seuen oxen, and seuen rammes. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken, an...
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel; the Israelites were not obliged to resort to any questionable methods of witchcraft, because they had the...
The Second Sacrifice and Prophetic Utterance....
BALAAM'S FIRST PROPHECY (vs.1-12) THE SANCTIFICATION OF ISRAEL Chapter 22:41 tells us that Balak brought Balaam to the high places of Baal in order to prophecy against Israel. Here he observed onl...
AGAINST: Or, in...
11-30 Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessin...
I find by experience and serious consideration that all mine and thine endeavours to enchant Israel are in vain, being frustrated by their omnipotent God. I can do thee no service by my art against th...
Numbers 23:23 sorcery H5173 Jacob H3290 divination H7081 Israel H3478 now H6256 said H559 (H8735) Jacob H3290 Israe
Numbers 23:18 (18a-24) ‘And he took up his incantation (parable),' Once again Balaam gave out his incantation. Note even here the chiastic construction. Numbers 23:18 (18b-24) “Rise up, Balak, and...
CONTENTS: Balaam blesses instead of curses Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Balaam, Balak. CONCLUSION: Those who have the good will of heaven may expect the ill will of hell but God will not suffer real inj...
Numbers 23:1. _Seven altars._ The Lord commanded Job's friends to take seven bullocks and seven rams, offered no doubt on seven altars: Job 42:8. This was the highest sacrifice a nation could present....
_He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in Israel._ THE PROPHECIES OF BALAAM Prophecy is not Fatalism, but in many cases, at least, a forecasting of the certain conse...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 23:13 Balaam observes that GOD does not CHANGE HIS MIND, so the blessing already pronounced cannot be turned into a curse (vv....
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 23:23 Because God is with Israel, attempts to attack them with magic will fail. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 23:1. _Build me here seven altars_. “As _seven_ was a number of perfection, Balaam chose it on this occasion, because he intended to offer a grand sacrifice, and...
NUMBERS 23:1 BUILD ME HERE SEVEN ALTARS. According to the common opinion of the heathen, it was necessary to propitiate with sacrifices the God with whom they had to do, and if possible to secure his...
Numbers 23:1-30 And God met Balaam: and Balaam said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said,...
1 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 10:38; Acts 15:12;...
Against Jacob — Nor against any that truly believe in Christ. What hath God wrought — How wonderful and glorious are those works which God is now about to do for Israel! These things will be a matter...