Numbers 24:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. ”

Numbers 24:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Balaam’s native soil was ordinarily irrigated by water fetched from the neighboring Euphrates, and carried in buckets suspended from the two ends of a pole. Thus the metaphor would import that Isra...
Numbers 24:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

He shall pour the (d) water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than (e) Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. (d) His prosperity and posterity...
Numbers 24:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam's Third Oracle. This varies the tenor of the two previous utterances by dwelling upon the fertility of Israel's soil, and the eminence of its ruler. It was probably constructed, like the pre...
Numbers 24:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pour the water. This refers to Millennial blessings. See Ezekiel 4 . and Zechariah 14 .
Numbers 24:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. And his king shall be higher than Agag. He now begins to enlarge on their outward prosperity, viz., that the people of Israel shall be powerful and flourishing, and endowed with a warlike...
Numbers 24:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. He shall pour the water out of his bucket...
Numbers 24:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, &c.— Very different are the interpretations given to this obscure passage. 1. The LXX render the Hebrew widely different from our translation; a man...
Numbers 24:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. He shall pour the water out of his...
Numbers 24:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Numbers 24:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He shall pour the water out of his buckets. — Better, Water shall flow from his buckets; or, he shall flow with water from his buckets. The nation is personified as a man carrying two buckets f...
Numbers 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If those beautiful words be considered prophetically as undoubtedly they were intended, what a volume of rich mercies, both temporal and spiritual, is contained in them. The Israel of GOD shall preva...
Numbers 24:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He shall pour the water out of his buckets ,.... That is, God shall plentifully send down rain out of the clouds upon these valleys, gardens, and trees, and make them fruitful; and this may be a fig...
Numbers 24:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed [shall be] in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. Ver. 7. His seed shall be in many wate...
Numbers 24:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He shall pour the water That is, God will abundantly water the valleys, gardens, and tress, which represent the Israelites; he will wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessings, of...
Numbers 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He, i.e. God, will abundantly water the valleys, gardens , and trees , is which represent the Israelites, Numbers 24:6 , i.e. he will wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessi...
Numbers 24:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:3-9 (3a-9) ‘And he took up his incantation (parable), and said,' Here he begins with what was clearly his normal way of going into deep trance and follows it with a series of contrast...
Numbers 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - 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 24:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Third Blessing
Numbers 24:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 14:2 ; 1 Kings 4:21 ; 1 Samuel 15:32 ; 1 Samuel 15:33 ; 1 Samuel 15:8 ; 1 Samuel 15:9 ; 2 Samuel 5:12 ; Daniel 2:44 ; Ezra 4:20 ; Isaiah 2:2 ; Isaiah 48:1 ; Isaiah 9:7 ; Jer...
Numbers 24:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

He shall pour the water — That is. God will abundantly water the valleys, gardens, and trees, which represent the Israelites; he will wonderfully bless his people, not only with outward blessings,...

Numbers 24:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Numbers 24:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Numbers 24:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Numbers 24:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 24:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 24:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Numbers 24:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Numbers 24:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Numbers 24:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes