Numbers 23:18; Numbers 23:7; Numbers 22:31; Numbers 24:16; Numbers 24:4
Whose eyes are open - i. e., opened in inward vision, to discern things that were hidden from ordinary beholders.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes (b) are open hath said: (b) His eyes were shut up bef...
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...
And he took up his parable. Compare Numbers 23:7 ; Numbers 23:18 . the man . the strong or mighty man. Hebrew. geber. See App-14. whose eye...
3. And the man whose eyes are open, (166) hath said. This preface has no other object than to prove that he is a true prophet of God, an...
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: He took up his parable - His proph...
Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said— There seems to be no reason for understanding this introduction, with Bishop Patrick, as a proof of Balaam's va...
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: Balaam the son of Beor hat...
Balaam (continued) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance.
Hath said ] The English here is too commonplace to represent the original, which is in a very lofty and impassioned strain. 'Oracle of Balaam, son o...
Balaam the son of Beor hath said. — The Hebrew word ( neum ) is imperfectly rendered by hath said. It is the word which is commonly used in the p...
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...
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....
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...
Observe how the HOLY GHOST hath caused the expressions of Balaam to be guarded. It is the man whose eyes are opened, not whose heart; whose knowledge...
And he took up his parable ,.... His parable of prophecy, as the Targums, his prophetic speech, which, with a loud voice, he expressed in the hearin...
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: Ver. 3. Whose eyes are open. ]...
The Spirit of God came upon him And is it likely that the Spirit of God would have come upon a sorcerer or enchanter? A prophetic influence from Go...
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 Blesses Israel a Third Time. B. C. 1452....
The eyes, either, 1. Of his body, as in the following verse; or, 2. Of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical manner, whenc...
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...
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 24:3 I. Balaam was a man whose eye was open in his day. He was a man of splendid natural genius. We puzzle over the definition of genius;...
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...
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...
Numbers 24:1 As at other times, or, "as (he had done) time after time." Septuagint, κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. To seek for enchantments. Ra...
A Third Blessing
And he took up his parable, his prophetic utterance, and said, Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said;
Whose eyes are open — Heb. Who had his eyes shut, but now open. The eyes of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical manner, wh...
3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: