Numbers 24:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. ”

Numbers 24:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balaam gazed over the camp of Israel that stretched before him, and allowed the spectacle to work its own influence upon him.
Numbers 24:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 23:25 to Numbers 24:2 . Balak's Sacrifices preliminary to Balaam's third Oracle. The scene of these was Peor, some mountain overlooking the desert bordering the Dead Sea on the W. The in...
Numbers 24:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

according to their tribes. Compare Numbers 2 . the spirit of God (Hebrew. 'Elohim) . This expression occurs eight times outside the books of Samuel ( Genesis 1:2 ; Genesis 41:38 ; Exodus 31:...
Numbers 24:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. The Spirit of God came upon him - This Divine afflatus he had n...
Numbers 24:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The spirit of God came upon him— That is, a prophetic influence from God, whereby his mind was inspired to see and foretel future events. Philo and others consider Balaam as merely passive in this...
Numbers 24:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. Balaam lifted up his eyes - a Hebrew phrase for earnest o...
Numbers 24:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Numbers 24:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Abiding in his tents... — i.e., encamped according to the order prescribed for the respective tribes. The cognate noun is rendered tabernacles in Numbers 24:5 . And the spirit of God came up...
Numbers 24:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BALAAM'S PARABLES Numbers 22:39-41 , Numbers 24:1-9 THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of the Hebrew tribes in the plain of the Jordan is fully visible. At Kir...
Numbers 24:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Balaam's Vision of Israel's Prosperity Numbers 24:1-14 In these remarkable words Balaam describes the condition and prospects of God's people. They reveal the innermost thought which even a bad...
Numbers 24:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From the closing sentences in chapter twenty-three we learn that Balaam was taken to yet another place of vision, from whence he looked on the desert. The Spirit of God came upon him and again he utt...
Numbers 24:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The SPIRIT of GOD came upon him; that is upon him by an overruling, constraining power, so as to prompt to a service his heart would gladly have been excused from; but not in him, in a way of renewin...
Numbers 24:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Balaam lifted up his eyes ,.... Being on Mount Peor: and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes ; in that exact order in which they were directed to encamp under four sta...
Numbers 24:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. Ver. 2. And the spirit of God came upon him. ] A common spir...
Numbers 24:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Spirit of God came upon him And is it likely that the Spirit of God would have come upon a sorcerer or enchanter? A prophetic influence from God came upon him, whereby he was enabled to foresee...
Numbers 24:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BALAAM'S THIRD PROPHECY (vs.1-13) THE BEAUTY OF LIFE At least Balaam had learned by now that the Lord had the unchangeable purpose of blessing Israel, so this time he knew it was useless to s...
Numbers 24:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam Blesses Israel a Third Time. B. C. 1452. 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased th...
Numbers 24:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

According to their tribes; in the order appointed, Num 2 . Came upon him, i.e. inspired him to speak the following words, and so constrained him again to bless those whom he desired to curse.
Numbers 24:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 24 Balaam's Final Failed Attempt Is Followed By Various Prophecies. Numbers 24:1 ‘And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he did not go not, as at the other times,...
Numbers 24:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 24:1 . To seek for enchantments . See Notes on Numbers 23:3 ; Numbers 23:23 . He set his face toward the wilderness, i.e. , towards the plains of Moab, w...
Numbers 24:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:7 . He shall pour the water. This is a fine prediction of the increase of Jacob's seed, and of the temporal blessings which should fall to their lot. Agag, a perpetual name assumed by t...
Numbers 24:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

He set his face toward the wilderness. The face set toward the wilderness Evidently there is a change at this point in Balaam’s method. Hitherto he has played the soothsayer. At last he confess...
Numbers 24:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 24:1 As at other times, or, "as (he had done) time after time." Septuagint, κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. To seek for enchantments. Rather, "for the meeting with aunties." לִקְמראת נְח...
Numbers 24:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Third Blessing
Numbers 24:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 10:10 ; 1 Samuel 19:20 ; 1 Samuel 19:23 ; 2 Chronicles 15:1 ; John 11:49-51 ; Luke 10:20 ; Matthew 10:4 ; Matthew 10:8 ; Matthew 7:22 ; Numbers 11:25-29 ; Numbers 2:2-34 ; Number...
Numbers 24:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Came upon him — Inspired him to speak the following words.

Numbers 24:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 24:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 24:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 24:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 24:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 24:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 24:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes