Numbers 24:9

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A lion. אַרִי . A great lion. לָבִיא . See on Numbers 23:24 , and Genesis 49:9 . Blessed is he that blesseth thee, &c.; In these words Balaam seems to refer to the terms of Balak's first message ( Numbers 22:6 ). Far from being affected by blessings and cursings from without, Israel was itself a source of blessing or cursing to others according as they treated him.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

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