Numbers 22:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? ”

• Numbers 22:37 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Meeting of Balak and Balaam. Partly from E. and partly from J, but the distribution between the two sources is uncertain. Probably Numbers 22:36 and Numbers 22:38 belong to E, describing (i...

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• Numbers 22:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Did. not earnestly send. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), Hebrew "a sending did. not send". See note on Genesis 26:28 . am. not able... ? Vain boast! Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

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• Numbers 22:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

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• Numbers 22:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? No JFB commentary on this verse...

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• Numbers 22:37 - 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 22:37 - 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 22:37 - 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 22:37 - 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 22:37 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The long wished for interview is now obtained, and Balak makes sure that he shall now accomplish his wishes against Israel. But Balaam had his fears about him, as conscious sinners sometimes have, th...

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• Numbers 22:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam ,.... Upon their meeting together: did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee ? or "in sending send" u; the first messengers in a very pressing manner, with great i...

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• Numbers 22:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? Ver. 37. To promote thee to honour....

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• Numbers 22:37 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In the utmost coast Not far from the camp of the Israelites, whom he desired him to curse. Have I now any power at all , &c. He here lets Balak know he was under the overruling power of God, w...

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• Numbers 22:37 - 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 22:37 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Meeting between Balak and Balaam. B. C. 1452.       36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was...

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• Numbers 22:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Numbers 22:37 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Balaam's Arrival in Moab ( Numbers 22:36-38 ). Numbers 22:36 ‘And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab (or ‘a city of Moab'), which is on the bord...

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• Numbers 22:37 - 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 22:37 - 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 22:37 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Balaam went with Balak. The meeting between Balak and Balaam We have here the meeting between Balak and Balaam, confederate enemies to God’s Israel; but here they seem to differ in their expect...

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• Numbers 22:37 - 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 22:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Balak's charge to Balaam

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• Numbers 22:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 5:44 ; Luke 4:6 ; Matthew 4:8 ; Matthew 4:9 ; Numbers 22:16 ; Numbers 22:17 ; Numbers 24:11 ; Psalms 75:6

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• Numbers 22:37 - 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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