Numbers 23:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. ”

• Numbers 23:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Balak's Sacrifices preliminary to Balaam's second Oracle. Balak's disappointment at Balaam's first utterance leads him to take Balaam to the field of Zophim (or the watchmen) in the hope that the d...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  curse. Hebrew. kabab. See note on Numbers 22:11 .

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• Numbers 23:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. And Balak said unto Balaam. The proud man again reproaches the false prophet, as if he had fairly purchased of him the right of prophecy. (159) Behold how the reprobate seek God by croo...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Balaam (continued) 1-10. First Utterance of Balaam.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou hast blessed them altogether. — Hebrew, Thou hast blessed, to bless: an emphatic mode of stating that Balaam had continued to give utterance to nothing but blessings.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Blessing instead of a Curse Numbers 22:41 ; Numbers 23:1-12 Notice the position of these Chapter s, preceding the awful story of Baal-peor. Presently the Israelites will be perpetrating such...

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• Numbers 23:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 ha...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Is it not highly probable, that as the LORD wrought so powerfully on the mind of Balaam, he did not leave Balak altogether unconscious of his overruling presence? If so how applicable doth the psalmi...

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• Numbers 23:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Balak said unto Balaam, what hast thou done unto me ?.... Or "for me" f; nothing at all, to answer his purpose, or his end in sending for him; I took thee to curse mine enemies : so he calls t...

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• Numbers 23:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether. Ver. 11. What hast thou done unto me. ] Hereby it appe...

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• Numbers 23:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 observe...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Balaam Constrained to Bless Israel; The Blessing Pronounced on Israel. B. C. 1452.       1 And...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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,...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Numbers 23:11-12 I. Balaam is a heathen prophet; he is certainly not produced as a favourable specimen of one. In the New Testament he is represented as the very type of false and evil teachers. Y...

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• Numbers 23:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 pre...

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• Numbers 23:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 p...

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• Numbers 23:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 s...

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• Numbers 23:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The First Sacrifice and Prophetic Utterance.

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• Numbers 23:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Numbers 22:11 ; Numbers 22:17 ; Numbers 23:7 ; Numbers 23:8 ; Numbers 24:10 ; Psalms 109:17-20

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