Numbers 23:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? ”

Numbers 23:17 - 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...
Numbers 23:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. And when he came to him. Balak inquires what God had answered, although he had rejected the previous revelation. Thus do hypocrites profess anxious solicitude in inquiring the will of Go...
Numbers 23:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? What hath the Lord spoken? - Balak himself now u...
Numbers 23:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Numbers 23:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-10. First Utterance of Balaam.
Numbers 23:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

What hath the Lord spoken? — Balak here speaks of God under the name Jehovah.
Numbers 23:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

No Enchantment against Israel Numbers 23:13-30 Balak was surprised and disappointed. He therefore bethought himself of limiting the seer's vision, so that he might see an attenuated Israel from...
Numbers 23:17 - 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...
Numbers 23:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The same or similar observations meet us here as were offered before. Enchantments were what Balaam used when he left Balak under pretence of enquiring of the LORD. See Numbers 24:1 . There are seve...
Numbers 23:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering ,.... As before; Numbers 23:6 and the princes of Moab with him; Jarchi observes, that before it is said, all the princes of Moab, bu...
Numbers 23:17 - 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...
Numbers 23:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam Again Blesses Israel. B. C. 1452. 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee...
Numbers 23:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Numbers 23:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Attempt To Influence Yahweh ( Numbers 23:13-26 ). Numbers 23:13 ‘And Balak said to him, “Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from where you may see them. You shall see but t...
Numbers 23:17 - 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,...
Numbers 23:17 - 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...
Numbers 23:17 - 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...
Numbers 23:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Second Sacrifice and Prophetic Utterance.
Numbers 23:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 3:17 ; Jeremiah 37:17 ; Numbers 23:26

Numbers 23:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 23:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 23:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 23:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 23:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 23:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 23:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 23:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 23:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge