He took up, to wit, into his mouth; he expressed or spoke. His parable, i.e. his oracular and prophetical speech; which he calls a parable, because of the weightiness of the matter, and the majesty and smartness of the expressions which is usual in parables. From Aram; from Aram, Naharaim, or Mesopotamia, Deuteronomy 23:4. See Genesis 10:22. Aram lay towards the mountains of the east: the east was infamous for charmers or soothsayers, Isaiah 2:6. Jacob; the posterity of Jacob, i.e. Israel, as it here follows.
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Numbers 23:7
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.