Who can count the (f) dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me (g) die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
(f) The infinite multitude, as the dust of the earth.
(g) The fear of God's judgment caused him to wish to be joined to the household of Abraham: thus the wicked have their consciences wounded when they consider God's judgments.
Verse Numbers 23:10. _LET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS_] Probably Balaam had some presentiment that he should be taken off by a premature death, and therefore he lodges this petition against it....
THE FOURTH PART OF ISRAEL - i. e., each one of the four camps, into which the host of Israel was divided (see Numbers 2), seemed to swarm with innumerable multitudes. Possibly Balaam could only see on...
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 FIRST ORACLE. Its purport is that the secure independence, the imposing numbers, and the undisturbed prosperity of Israel are proof that the people have not been cursed by God and therefore c...
WHO CAN COUNT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. THE NUMBER OF. Who can number? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6). So with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint. The word "number" is thought by G...
_Balaam's first prophetic message_. This consists of seven short couplets. Balaam declares the uselessness of Balak's action in fetching him for the purpose of cursing (Numbers 23:7 f.); the security...
_Or number the fourth part of Israel_ involves a necessary emendation, the Heb. text (represented in R.V. marg.) being scarcely translateable. For -the _fourth part_" (רֹבַע) some would read -the _my...
DISCOURSE: 172 BALAAM’S FIRST ATTEMPT TO CURSE ISRAEL Numbers 23:7. And he took up his parable, and said, Balak, the king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the East, saying,...
WHO CAN COUNT THE DUST OF JACOB? &C.— God promised to Abraham, first, that his posterity should inherit the land of Canaan; and secondly, that they should be as _numerous_ as the dust of the earth, Ge...
D. THE FIRST BLESSING OF BALAAM (NUMBERS 23:1-12) TEXT Numbers 23:1. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. 2. And Balak did as Balaam...
_WHO CAN COUNT THE DUST OF JACOB, AND THE NUMBER OF THE FOURTH PART OF ISRAEL? LET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND LET MY LAST END BE LIKE HIS!_ Who can count the dust of Jacob ... ? х_ `ªPAR_...
BALAAM (CONTINUED) 1-10. First Utterance of Balaam....
THE RIGHTEOUS] The people of Israel are called 'the righteous' because God, who is Himself righteous, has called them to be the same. The Heb word for 'righteous' is _Jashar_, and Jeshurun is a poetic...
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
WHO CAN COUNT THE DUST OF JACOB? — These words point back to the promise made to Abraham: “And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth,” &c. (Genesis 13:16). AND THE NUMBER OF THE FOURTH PART OF...
מִ֤י מָנָה֙ עֲפַ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּ מִסְפָּ֖ר אֶת
A BLESSING INSTEAD OF A CURSE Numbers 22:41; Numbers 23:1 Notice the position of these Chapter s, preceding the awful story of Baal-peor. Presently the Israelites will be perpetrating such terrible s...
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...
Dust. God had promised to multiply the seed of Abraham as the dust of the earth, Genesis xiii. 16. Balaam had just beheld several thousands of them, and in rapture, exclaims, according to the Hebrew,...
Sweet thought! though the flock of JESUS be but a little flock when comparatively considered; yet it is in itself an innumerable company. Reader! if it be your portion to be of the number of the ranso...
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...
10._Who can count the dust of Jacob? _Hence it is plain that what Balaam was to say was suggested to him by God, since he quotes the words of God’s solemn promise, wherein the seed of Abraham is compa...
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...
WHO CAN COUNT, THE DUST OF JACOB,.... The people of Israel, their posterity so called, not because of their original, the dust of the earth, but because of their numbers, being as numerous as the dust...
_Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!_ Ver. 10. _Let me die the death._] But he was...
_Who can count the dust of Jacob?_ Who can count a people which is like the dust of the earth for number? Thus was God's promise to Abraham. (Genesis 13:16.) _I will make thy seed as the dust of the e...
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...
The First Sacrifice and Prophetic Utterance....
Who can count the dust of Jacob, Genesis 13:15, AND THE NUMBER OF THE FOURTH PART OF ISRAEL? Even the fourth part of the nation, in allusion to the four divisions of the camp, was beyond ordinary comp...
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...
ME DIE THE DEATH: _ Heb._ my soul, or my life...
1-10 With the camps of Israel full in view, Balaam ordered seven altars to be built, and a bullock and a ram to be offered on each. Oh the sottishness of superstition, to imagine that God will be at...
THE DUST OF JACOB, i.e. the numberless people of Jacob or Israel, who, according to God's promise; GENESIS 13:16, GENESIS 28:14, are now become as the dust of the earth. OF THE FOURTH PART OF ISRAEL,...
Numbers 23:10 count H4487 (H8804) dust H6083 Jacob H3290 number H4557 one-fourth H7255 Israel H3478 die H5315...
Numbers 23:10 This is a thought in which all the world would agree, if they could speak out their real feelings. Those who are most backward and unwilling to lead the life of the righteous man even t...
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....
_Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! _ THE END OF THE RIGHTEOUS DESIRED Carlyle, in his “History of the French Revolution,” tells us of a Duke of Orleans who did...
_How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?_ BALAAM’S FIRST PARABLE; OR, THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD Balaam’s declaration of the happiness of Israel sets forth the blessedness of the peop...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 23:10 THE DUST OF JACOB suggests that God’s promise to the patriarchs has been fulfilled (see Genesis 13:16;...
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 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 2 Corinthians 5:1;...
The dust — The numberless people of Jacob or Israel, who according to God's promise, are now become as the dust of the earth. Of the righteous — Of this righteous and holy people. The sense is, they a...