Numbers 23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:11

curse. Hebrew. kabab. See note on Numbers 22:11 . read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:15

burnt offering. Some codices, one early printed edition, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac, read "offerings" ( plural ). read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:19

Hath He said. Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:20

He hath blessed. Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint read "I will bless". read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:21

iniquity. Hebrew. 'avon, trespass. App-44 . perverseness. Hebrew. 'amal. App-44 . read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:22

strength = heights or heaps of. Hebrew. to'apoth. Only here, Numbers 24:8 , Job 22:25 (plenty), and Psalms 95:4 (= heights). unicorn. This word is from the Septuagint. The Hebrew is ree m. Supposed to be the rhinoceros, buffalo, or antelope: always rendered "unicorn" in Authorized Version. read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:28

Jeshimon. See note on Numbers 21:20 . read more

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Numbers 23:30

offered = offered up. Hebrew. 'alah. App-43 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Numbers 23:1

The preparations having been completed, this chapter gives the first two of some seven of the prophecies of Balaam. These are called parables in our version, but these utterances of Balaam bear no resemblance whatever to N.T. parables of Jesus. Whitelaw explained that this type of utterance resembled the "burden" of the later prophets, "in that it was not a discourse uttered to men, but a thing revealed in a man, of which he had to deliver himself as best he might in such words as came to him.... read more

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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Numbers 23:7

FIRST ORACLE"From Aram hath Balak brought me,The king of Moab from the mountains of the East:Come, curse me Jacob,And come, defy Israel.How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?For from the top of the rocks I see him,And from the hills I behold him:Lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone,And shall not be reckoned among the nations.Who can count the dust of Jacob,Or number the fourth part of Israel?Let me die the death of the righteous,And let... read more

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