Numbers 23:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? ”

Numbers 23:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 therefor...
Numbers 23:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

How... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. curse . revile. Hebrew. nakab. GOD . Hebrew. 'El . the mighty God. See App-4. cursed. Hebrew. kabab . to pierce with words. defy... defied....
Numbers 23:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 172 BALAAM’S FIRST ATTEMPT TO CURSE ISRAEL Numbers 23:7-10 . 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...
Numbers 23:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? - It was granted on all hands that no incantations nor...
Numbers 23:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? A divine blessing has been pronounced over the po...
Numbers 23:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-10. First Utterance of Balaam.
Numbers 23:8 - 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...
Numbers 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe what he saith: that he could not; not that he would not, for that he wished. But how precious an instruction doth this hold forth to the believer in JESUS: neither magicians, nor devils, can...
Numbers 23:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed ?.... The sense is, that it was impossible for him to curse those that God did not curse himself, or would not have cursed by others; not but that he had a...
Numbers 23:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied? Ver. 8. How shall I curse? ] He had a good mind to it, but did not, because he durst not: God sto...
Numbers 23:8 - 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 23:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam Constrained to Bless Israel; The Blessing Pronounced on Israel. B. C. 1452. 1 And...
Numbers 23:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God hath not cursed, but blessed Israel, and therefore it is a vain and ridiculous attempt for me to curse them in spite of God.
Numbers 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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 23:8 - 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...
Numbers 23:8 - 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 23:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The First Sacrifice and Prophetic Utterance.
Numbers 23:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 44:25 ; Isaiah 47:12 ; Isaiah 47:13 ; Numbers 23:20 ; Numbers 23:23

Numbers 23:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 23:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Numbers 23:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 23:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 23:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 23:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 23:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 23:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 23:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge