Numbers 24:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. ”

Numbers 24:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Kenites - First mentioned Genesis 15:19 as one of the tribes whose territory was promised to Abraham. In Judges 1:16 , where we read of them as moving with the children of Judah, to establ...
Numbers 24:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou (o) puttest thy nest in a rock. (o) Make yourself as strong as you can.
Numbers 24:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Three Appended Oracles. These additional oracles, relating to other peoples than the Moabites, are probably derived from neither E nor J, but have been inserted by an editor from other sources....
Numbers 24:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Kenites. With the word "nest" forms the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. ben kain. nest. Hebrew. ken.
Numbers 24:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

21. And he looked on the Kenites. I have not yet referred to the sense in which Balaam is said to have seen the Kenites, as well as the other nations; and now, also, I should refrain from...
Numbers 24:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. He looked on the Kenites - Commentators are not well agreed who the...
Numbers 24:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, х h...
Numbers 24:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Numbers 24:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(21-22) And he looked on the Kenites... — According to the ordinary interpretation of these verses the continuous destruction of the Kenites is foretold until the Israelites should be taken captive...
Numbers 24:21 - 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 24:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the “Star out of Jacob” Numbers 24:15-25 When your heart is dismayed because of the hatred and opposition of Satan; the great accuser, turn to this chapter. If he stands up to resist, the Son o...
Numbers 24:21 - 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 24:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I connect all that is here said respecting the destruction of the nations by Israel, for the sake of shortness. If the Reader be disposed to search out for the accomplishment of these prophecies, I r...
Numbers 24:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he looked on the Kenites ,.... Not the family and posterity of Jethro, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Abendana; for they were not a people by themselves, but were now encamped with Israel, and went w...
Numbers 24:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. Ver. 21. The Kenites, ] i.e., The Midianites, Judges 1:16 ;...
Numbers 24:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He looked on the Kenites Commentators are much at a loss to say, with any certainty, who these Kenites were. The most probable account of them, Bishop Newton thinks, is as follows: “Jethro, the fat...
Numbers 24:21 - 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 24:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam's Prophecy. B. C. 1452. 15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son...
Numbers 24:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Kenite; the posterity or kindred of Jethro; not that part of them which dwelt among the Israelites, to whom the following words do not agree, but those of them who were mingled with the Amaleki...
Numbers 24:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam Looks On and Prophesies Concerning the Wandering Kenites ( Numbers 24:21-22 ). Numbers 24:21 a ‘And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his oracle, and said,' In the same way as wit...
Numbers 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - 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 24:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of The Star of Jacob.
Numbers 24:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 15:19 ; Job 29:18 ; Judges 1:16
Numbers 24:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The Kenites — The posterity or kindred of Jethro; not that part of them which dwelt among the Israelites, to whom the following words do not agree, but those of them who were mingled with the Amale...

Numbers 24:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 24:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 24:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 24:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 24:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 24:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes