NUMBERS—NOTE ON Numbers 24:15 An oracle was a prophet’s verbal statement about what God had shown him in a vision. Balaam’s final oracle begins like the previous one (compare vv. Numbers 24:3 with vv. Numbers 24:15). But it rapidly becomes a prophecy about the rise of the Davidic dynasty, which conquered the surrounding peoples, including Moab (2 Samuel 8:2).

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