Numbers 24:23-24

23, 24. Alas, who shall live The woe touches the heart of Balaam because his own Mesopotamia is involved in the fearful judgment. See Numbers 22:5.

Chittim Signifies (1) the island of Cyprus, (Isaiah 23:1;) (2) the Chittim islands, denoting the islands and coasts of the West, (Jeremiah 2:10;) and (3) Macedonia and Italy. Daniel 11:30. Keil seems to combine all these meanings, since all the Western ships took Cyprus in their way. “The nations that would come across the sea from the side of Cyprus to humble Asshur are not mentioned by name, because this lay beyond the range of Baalam’s vision.”

Eber The Seventy and Vulgate, Hebrews. Evidently all the posterity of Eber through Abraham.

He also shall perish forever The conquering power from the West. Daniel 7:26. “The judgment of history even upon the imperial powers of the West, and the final victory of the King of the kingdom of God were proclaimed, though in fading outlines, more than a thousand years before the events themselves.” Tholuck. “So it came to pass when the ships of Cyprus, of Greece, of Europe, then just seen in the horizon of human hopes and fears, did at last, under the Macedonian conqueror, turn the tide of Eastern invasion backward; and Asshur and Babylon and Persia, no less than the wild hordes of the desert, perished forever from the earth.” Stanley.