Numbers 24:7

pour the water. This refers to Millennial blessings. See Ezekiel 4. and Zechariah 14.

Related Commentaries of 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 o...
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 s...
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...
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 po...
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...
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 He...
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 b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
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 nat...
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

If those beautiful words be considered prophetically as undoubtedly they were intended, what a volume of rich mercies, both temporal and spiritual, i...
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 tr...
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...
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 ble...
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

He, i.e. God, will abundantly water the valleys, gardens , and trees , is which represent the Israelites, Numbers 24:6 , i.e. he will wonderfu...
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...
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

He shall pour the water out of his buckets, for they would overflow with moisture, and his seed shall be in many waters, his descendants would find t...
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...
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 b...

⁷ 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.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 24:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

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

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

Numbers 24:7