Numbers 22:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. ”

• Numbers 22:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Balak's second Summons to Balaam, and Yahweh's Consent that he should Go. This section probably comes from E, and represents not a change of purpose on the part of God, but a difference of attitude...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  went. Without waiting for the condition given by the LORD in Numbers 22:20 . Hence God's anger. See . sabbath. . special various reading called Sevir (App-34), one early printed edition, and...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

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• Numbers 22:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And saddled his ass— That is, according to the usual mode of expression in Scripture, caused his ass to be saddled; for he had servants to wait upon him. Persons of the highest rank, in those t...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. Balaam ... saddled his ass. Probably one of the white sprightly animals which persons of rank were a...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Balaam The Israelites now enter upon the last stage of their journey to Canaan. They are within sight of the land of promise, being encamped at the northern end of the Dead Sea, near the mouth of...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  BALAAM ON THE WAY Numbers 22:20-38 THE history is moving towards a great vindication of Israel and prediction of its coming power, all the more impressive that they are to be wrung from an unwi...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Balaam Warned What to Speak Numbers 22:21-40 If only Balaam had abided by his first answer to Balak's request, he would have been saved from the disgrace and suffering which ensued. But he seem...

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• Numbers 22:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the story of BaIaarn. It is evident that he was a remarkable personality. He appears in the story as a man of integrity, who attempted a literal obedience to the will of God. We are ar...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg the Reader not to overlook in those verses, that Balaam's permission to go, was on condition that the man called upon him again. Whereas it doth not appear, that he was again invited, but that...

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• Numbers 22:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  BALAAM ‘And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.… And Balaam rose up in the morning, an...

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• Numbers 22:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Balaam rose up in the morning ,.... Early, not waiting for the call of the princes, which showed how eager he was to be gone, and how intent upon the journey: and saddled his ass ; which, if h...

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• Numbers 22:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. Ver. 21. And saddled his ass. ] Which never runs fast enough after preferment, till horse and man and a...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If the men come to call thee, rise up and go with them He had no leave to go at all unless the messengers came again in the morning to him. And, perhaps, if he had not gone to them, after having pr...

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• Numbers 22:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  BALAK HIRING BALAAM (vs.1-21) Still within Moab, Israel moved again to the plains and camped near Jordan, across from Jericho. Moab had no power to withstand them, however, though Balak, king of...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Balak's Second Message to Balaam. B. C. 1452.       15 And Balak sent yet again princes, mor...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Numbers 22:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Balaam Therefore Goes with the Chieftains of Moab ( Numbers 22:21 ). Numbers 22:21 ‘And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the chieftains of Moab.' As God had...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES We now enter upon the last division of this Book, which comprises fifteen Chapter s (22–36). “In the steppes of Moab the Israelites encamped upon the border of the Pro...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Numbers 22:20-22 In the story of Balaam we have a seeming contradiction. God said, "If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them," and yet "God's anger was kindled because he went." How...

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• Numbers 22:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Numbers 22:5 . To Pethor, which is by the river. A Pethor was in Mesopotamia; the river is thought to be the Euphrates, or one of its branches, distant at least 500 miles from Moab. Deuteronomy 2...

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• Numbers 22:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them. No contradiction between God’s two answers to Balaam The first time God tells him not to go; the second time He bids him go, but is angr...

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• Numbers 22:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE COMING OF BALAAM ( Numbers 22:2-4 ). Numbers 22:2 Balak the son of Zippor. The name Balak is connected with a word "to make waste," and "Zippor" is a small bird. B...

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• Numbers 22:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Second Invitation Accepted

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• Numbers 22:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Proverbs 1:15 ; Proverbs 1:16

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• Numbers 22:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Woes of the Wicked Balaam Selections from Numbers 22:1-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS One of the things which sadden the soul is the way that not only professing Christians, but real believing...

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