Numbers 22:1
CHILDREN. sons. PLAINS OF MOAB: i.e. which had belonged to Moab.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. PLAINS OF MOAB: i.e. which had belonged to Moab.... [ Continue Reading ]
DONE TO THE AMORITES. Compare Numbers 21:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT US: Hebrew all our circuits. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BALAAM. So written after the Greek. In Hebrew bis name is _Bil'am._ Compare Joshua 13:22 with Joshua 24:9; Joshua 24:10. 2Pe 2:15, 2 Peter 2:16. He was. spiritist or medium. He is identified by Sayce with Bela, Genesis 36:31; Genesis 36:32, where Moses incorporates. list of Edomite kings. According... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSE. Hebrew. _'arar._ To wish or speak evil against, as to _effect_ rather than as to the act. WOT. know.... [ Continue Reading ]
REWARDS OF DIVINATION. Hebrew "divinations". Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), App-6, put for the money which procures it. Compare 2 Peter 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD... SAID. Note the change to _'Elohim._ said. Only four times: in verses: Numbers 9:12; Numbers 9:20 in connection with Balaam. See App-4, and notes on Numbers 1:1; Numbers 3:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS. PEOPLE. Hebrew. the People. NOW. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and Septuagint, read "now therefore". CURSE. Hebrew. _kabab,_ to pierce with words. Note that this word is found only in Balak's and Balaam's mouths. Here, first occurrence, and la... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT GO. This is absolute. Compare Numbers 22:20, where the permission is conditional. See Structure above. THOU SHALT NOT CURSE.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (see App-34), with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "neither shalt th... [ Continue Reading ]
BALAAM... SAID. Note what he suppressed,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY... SAID. Note what they suppressed.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROMOTE THEE UNTO VERY GREAT HONOUR. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for the emphasis rightly shown in the translation. Hebrew an honouring. will honour thee. See note on Genesis 26:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE MEN COME TO CALL THEE. This was the condition with which Balaam did not comply. See Numbers 22:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT. Without waiting for the condition given by the LORD in Numbers 22:20. Hence God's anger. See . SABBATH.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), one early printed edition, and Syriac, add the word "day", as in Nehemiah 13:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
COAST. border.... [ Continue Reading ]
DID. NOT EARNESTLY SEND. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), Hebrew "a sending did. not send". See note on Genesis 26:28. AM. NOT ABLE... ? Vain boast! Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6). HAVE I. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6). GOD. _'Elohim._ Not Jehovah. Note this, and see App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE UTMOST PART. the extremity of the camp.... [ Continue Reading ]