2 Kings 5:1; Malachi 3:2; Numbers 23:23
When God doeth this - The eventual carrying away of the allies of Israel by Assyria presented itself to Balaam as the ruin of all peace and safet...
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, (p) who shall live when God doeth this! (p) Some read, Oh who shall not perish when the enemy (that is,...
Three Appended Oracles. These additional oracles, relating to other peoples than the Moabites, are probably derived from neither E nor J, but have...
took up. This is not. fifth parable, but part of the fourth. live . survive.
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! Who shall live when God doeth this! - There are two senses in which t...
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! And he took up his parable, and said. [The Septuagint introdu...
Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
When God doeth this. — These words may be rendered, since (or, from the time that ) God sets (or, determines ) it (or, this ) — quando fa...
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...
THE MATTER OF BAAL-PEOR Numbers 24:10-25 ; Numbers 25:1-18 THE last oracle of Balaam, as we have it, ventures into far more explicit predictio...
the “Star out of Jacob” Numbers 24:15-25 When your heart is dismayed because of the hatred and opposition of Satan; the great accuser, turn to...
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...
I connect all that is here said respecting the destruction of the nations by Israel, for the sake of shortness. If the Reader be disposed to search o...
And he took up his parable, and said ,.... Or delivered another prophecy, having made some little pause: alas, who shall live when God doeth this...
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! Ver. 23. Who shall live when, &c. ] The Assyrian, that rod of...
Alas, who shall live How calamitous and miserable will the state of the world be, when the Assyrian, and after him the Chaldean, shall overrun and...
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...
Balaam's Prophecy. B. C. 1452. 15 An...
How calamitous and miserable will the state of the world be, when the Assyrian, and after him the Chaldean, shall overrun and overturn all these part...
Balaam Prophesies Concerning Eber (Israel and their fellow Semites) ( Numbers 24:23-24 ). Numbers 24:23 a ‘And he took up his oracle, and said...
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...
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...
Numbers 24:1 As at other times, or, "as (he had done) time after time." Septuagint, κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. To seek for enchantments. Ra...
Of The Star of Jacob.
And he took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! The judgment of God upon the disobedient and idolatrous enemies of His...
Who shall live — How calamitous and miserable will the state of the world be, when the Assyrian, and after him the Chaldean, shall over — turn all...
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!