Numbers 24:1

pleased the LORD. Hebrew was good in the eyes of Jehovah.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

other times. Compare Numbers 23:3; Numbers 23:15, and see Structure (p. 215).

to seek for enchantments. to meet with familiar spirits (Deuteronomy 18:10; Deuteronomy 18:14). Hebrew. nechashim, from nachash,. serpent. Compare Genesis 3:1, and see App-19.

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¹ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seeka for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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