Numbers 22:17

promote thee unto very great honour. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for the emphasis rightly shown in the translation. Hebrew an honouring. will honour thee. See note on Genesis 26:28.

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¹⁷ For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 22:17

Arthur Peake'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

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

Numbers 22:17