Numbers 24:3

Whose eyes are open - i. e., opened in inward vision, to discern things that were hidden from ordinary beholders.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes (b) are open hath said: (b) His eyes were shut up bef...
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 it...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

And he took up his parable. Compare Numbers 23:7 ; Numbers 23:18 . the man . the strong or mighty man. Hebrew. geber. See App-14. whose eye...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. And the man whose eyes are open, (166) hath said. This preface has no other object than to prove that he is a true prophet of God, an...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: He took up his parable - His proph...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said— There seems to be no reason for understanding this introduction, with Bishop Patrick, as a proof of Balaam's va...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: Balaam the son of Beor hat...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hath said ] The English here is too commonplace to represent the original, which is in a very lofty and impassioned strain. 'Oracle of Balaam, son o...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Balaam the son of Beor hath said. — The Hebrew word ( neum ) is imperfectly rendered by hath said. It is the word which is commonly used in the p...
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 i...
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....
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe how the HOLY GHOST hath caused the expressions of Balaam to be guarded. It is the man whose eyes are opened, not whose heart; whose knowledge...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he took up his parable ,.... His parable of prophecy, as the Targums, his prophetic speech, which, with a loud voice, he expressed in the hearin...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: Ver. 3. Whose eyes are open. ]...
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 Go...
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 blessin...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Balaam Blesses Israel a Third Time. B. C. 1452....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The eyes, either, 1. Of his body, as in the following verse; or, 2. Of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical manner, whenc...
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 de...
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 th...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Numbers 24:3 I. Balaam was a man whose eye was open in his day. He was a man of splendid natural genius. We puzzle over the definition of genius;...
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...
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. Hithert...
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. Ra...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Third Blessing
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And he took up his parable, his prophetic utterance, and said, Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said;
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 23:18 ; Numbers 23:7 ; Numbers 22:31 ; Numbers 24:16 ; Numbers 24:4
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Whose eyes are open — Heb. Who had his eyes shut, but now open. The eyes of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical manner, wh...

³ And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

Related Commentaries of Numbers 24:3

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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