Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Numbers 24:1
At other times — In former times. Toward the wilderness — Where Israel lay encamped, expecting what God of his own accord would suggest to him concerning this matter.
At other times — In former times. Toward the wilderness — Where Israel lay encamped, expecting what God of his own accord would suggest to him concerning this matter.
CHAPTER XXIV _Balaam, finding that God was determined to bless Israel, seeks_ _no longer for enchantments_, 1. _The Spirit of God coming upon him, he delivers a most important_ _prophetic parable_...
THE PARABLES OF BALAAM Chapter S 23-24 _ 1. The first parable (Numbers 23:1)_ 2. Balak's surprise and Balaam's answer (Numbers 23:11) 3. At Zophim (Numbers 23:13) 4. The second parable
NUMBERS 23:25 TO NUMBERS 24:2. BALAK'S SACRIFICES PRELIMINARY TO BALAAM'S THIRD ORACLE. The scene of these was Peor, some mountain overlooking the desert bordering the Dead Sea on the W. The inconsist...
PLEASED THE LORD. Hebrew was good in the eyes of Jehovah. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. OTHER TIMES. Compare Numbers 23:3; Numbers 23:15, and see Structure (p. 215). TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS....
Numbers 24:1-2. Balaam knew that Jehovah wished Israel to be blessed; he did not therefore seek an omen to guide him, but began his declaration at once....
_he went not, as at the other times, to meet with_ OMENS] The Heb. has a curious idiom which may be rendered either as in R.V., or -as at other times" (omitting -the"), i.e. as was his usual practice...
TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS— In the margin, _to the meeting of enchantments;_ by which is meant the same as he calls, _meeting the Lord,_ in the 3rd and 15th verses of the last chapter. It is difficult t...
G. THE PROPHECY OF BALAAM (NUMBERS 24:1-9) TEXT Numbers 24:1. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his fa...
_AND WHEN BALAAM SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BLESS ISRAEL, HE WENT NOT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS, BUT HE SET HIS FACE TOWARD THE WILDERNESS._ When Balaam saw - i:e., was convin...
24:1 for (a-26) Lit. 'meet.'...
BALAAM (CONTINUED) 1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS] lit. 'to meet omens': see on Numbers 23:3. TOWARD THE WILDERNESS] i.e. towards the plain where the Israelites were encamped: see Numbers 21:20; Numbers 22:1....
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 24 BALAAM’S THIRD *PROPHECY – NUMBERS 24:1-14 V1 Balaam realised that the *LORD wanted to *bless the *Israe
XXIV. (1) HE SET HIS FACE TOWARD THE WILDERNESS. — i.e., towards the place where the Israelites were encamped on the steppes of Moab....
וַ יַּ֣רְא בִּלְעָ֗ם כִּ֣י טֹ֞וב בְּ עֵינֵ֤י
BALAAM'S PARABLES Numbers 22:39, Numbers 24:1 THE scene is now on some mountain of Moab from which the encampment of the Hebrew tribes in the plain of the Jordan is fully visible. At Kiriath-huzoth,...
BALAAM'S VISION OF ISRAEL'S PROSPERITY Numbers 24:1 In these remarkable words Balaam describes the condition and prospects of God's people. They reveal the innermost thought which even a bad, double-...
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. The Spirit of God came upon him and again he utte...
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the (a) wilderness. (a) Where the Israelites camped....
_Divination. Septuagint, "to meet the birds." The augurs judged of future events by the flying, eating, and other appearances of birds. Hebrew, "enchantments." (Menochius) --- Desert. The plains of Mo...
CONTENTS We have in this Chapter, the continuation and conclusion of the history of Balak and Balaam. And never surely was there afforded a more memorable evidence, than there is in it, of the LORD'S...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
_TOWARD THE WILDERNESS_ ‘And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.’ Numbers 2...
1._And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord. _It is evident that Balaam, in order to gratify the wicked king for the sake of the reward, endeavored by various shifts and expedients to obtain an an...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Moab also opposes in vain. Now they are in the plains of Moab, having only Jordan between them and the land of their rest. But had they a...
AND WHEN BALSAM SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE LORD TO BLESS ISRAEL,.... That it was good in his sight, what he approved of, and was well-pleasing to him, and that it was his determined mind that Israel shou...
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. Ver. 1. _He went not as at other tim...
_He went not as at other times_ At former times; _to seek for enchantments_ The word נחשׁ, from which נחשׁים, _necashim_, here rendered _enchantments_, is derived, signifies to _augur, conjecture, sea...
1 Balaam leauing diuinations, prophesieth the happinesse of Israel. 10 Balak in anger dismisseth him. 15 He prophesieth of the starre of Iacob, and the destruction of some nations. [BALAAM BLESSETH...
A THIRD BLESSING...
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, this conviction having rather been forced upon him by his double experience, HE WENT NOT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, as upon the two previous occa...
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 blessing Israel, so this time he knew it was useless to seek e...
TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS: _ Heb._ to the meeting of enchantments...
1-9 Now Balaam spake not his own sense, but the language of the Spirit that came upon him. Many have their eyes open who have not their hearts open; are enlightened, but not sanctified. That knowledg...
NUMBERS CHAPTER 24 Balaam lays aside his sorceries, and the Spirit of God comes upon him; his eyes are open; hears the words of God, and sees the vision of the Almighty, NUMBERS 24:1; prophesies of Is...
Numbers 24:1 Balaam H1109 saw H7200 (H8799) pleased H5869 H2895 (H8804) LORD H3068 bless H1288 ...
CHAPTER 24 BALAAM'S FINAL FAILED ATTEMPT IS FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS PROPHECIES. Numbers 24:1 ‘And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he did not go not, as at the other times, to mee...
Numbers 24:1 In Balaam we have a man who, while his audacity and superstition are monstrous, still has a strong fear of Almighty God upon him, a determination not to disobey Him openly, a hope that at...
CONTENTS: Balaam foretells prosperity for Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Balaam, Balak. CONCLUSION: Those who oppose God and His people will sooner or later be made to see themselves wretchedly deceived....
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 to their lot. Agag, a perpetual name assumed by the...
_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. Hitherto he has played the soothsayer. At last he confesses h...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 24:1 The mention of the Spirit of God empowering Balaam (v. Numbers 24:2) shows the validity of Balaam’s third blessing. Balaam describes himself as the
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 the wilderness, i.e._, towards the plains of Moab, where the...
NUMBERS 24:1 AS AT OTHER TIMES, or, "as (he had done) time after time." SEPTUAGINT, κατὰ τὸ εἰωθός. TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS. Rather, "for the meeting with aunties." לִקְמראת נְחַשִׁים. Septuagint...
So when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn't even go up, as the other times before the LORD, [to seek the face or] to seek for enchantments, but he just set his face towards...
1 Samuel 24:20; 1 Samuel 26:2; 1 Samuel 26:25; Numbers 22:13; N