-
Verse Numbers 24:3. _HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE_] His prophetic
declaration couched in highly poetic terms, and in regular metre, as
the preceding were.
_THE MAN WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN_] I believe the orig...
-
WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN - i. e., opened in inward vision, to discern
things that were hidden from ordinary beholders....
-
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
-
BALAAM'S THIRD ORACLE. This varies the tenor of the two previous
utterances by dwelling upon the fertility of Israel's soil, and the
eminence of its ruler. It was probably constructed, like the preced...
-
The opening triplet is as follows:
THE ORACLE OF BALAAM SON OF BEOR.
The oracle of the man whose eye is (?) CLOSED.
The oracle of one that heareth the words of God.
The form of it should be compa...
-
_Balaam's first prophetic message_. In its present form this consists
of nine couplets and two triplets. But the text has undergone
corruption, and perhaps there were originally eleven couplets....
-
BALAAM, THE SON OF BEOR, HATH SAID— There seems to be no reason for
understanding this introduction, with Bishop Patrick, as a proof of
Balaam's vanity; since it is agreeable to the ordinary style of...
-
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 HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, BALAAM THE SON OF BEOR HATH
SAID, AND THE MAN WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN HATH SAID:_
Balaam the son of Beor hath said -
_ `Balaam the son of Beor prophesies, And the...
-
24:3 saith, (b-14) saith, (b-21) See Genesis 22:16 ....
-
HATH SAID] The English here is too commonplace to represent the
original, which is in a very lofty and impassioned strain. 'Oracle of
Balaam, son of Beor; oracle of the man whose eyes are opened; orac...
-
BALAAM (CONTINUED)
1-9. Balaam's Third Utterance....
-
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
-
BALAAM THE SON OF BEOR HATH SAID. — The Hebrew word (_neum_) is
imperfectly rendered by _hath said._ It is the word which is commonly
used in the prophetical books of Scripture to denote a Divine sayi...
-
וַ יִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁלֹ֖ו וַ יֹּאמַ֑ר
נְאֻ֤ם בִּ
-
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 he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath
said, and the man whose eyes (b) are open hath said:
(b) His eyes were shut up before in respect to the clear visions which
he saw af...
-
_Up. The same term only occurs again, (Lamentations iii. 8,) where it
may have the same sense, though the Septuagint &c., give it here a
quite opposite meaning, "the man whose eyes are open," the prop...
-
Observe how the HOLY GHOST hath caused the expressions of Balaam to be
guarded. It is the man whose eyes are opened, not whose heart; whose
knowledge of divine things is in the head, but who never fel...
-
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...
-
3._And the man whose eyes are open, _(166) _hath said. _This preface
has no other object than to prove that he is a true prophet of God,
and that he has received the blessing, which he pronounces, fro...
-
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 HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE,.... His parable of prophecy, as the
Targums, his prophetic speech, which, with a loud voice, he expressed
in the hearing of Balak and his nobles:
AND SAID, BALAAM THE SON...
-
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath
said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Ver. 3. _Whose eyes are open._] And therefore can speak it of a
certainty: for what...
-
_The Spirit of God came upon him_ And is it likely that the Spirit of
God would have come upon a sorcerer or enchanter? A prophetic
influence from God came upon him, whereby he was enabled to foresee...
-
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...
-
And he took up his parable, his prophetic utterance, and said, BALAAM,
THE SON OF BEOR, HATH SAID, AND THE MAN WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN HATH SAID;...
-
A THIRD BLESSING...
-
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...
-
WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN:
_ Heb._ who had his eyes shut, but now open...
-
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...
-
The eyes, either,
1. Of his body, as in the following verse; or,
2. Of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical
manner, whence prophets are called seers, 1 SAMUEL 9:9. He implies...
-
Numbers 24:3 up H5375 (H8799) oracle H4912 said H559 (H8799) utterance
H5002 (H8803) Balaam H1109 son...
-
Numbers 24:3 (3a-9)
‘And he took up his incantation (parable), and said,'
Here he begins with what was clearly his normal way of going into deep
trance and follows it with a series of contrasts pres...
-
Numbers 24:3
I. Balaam was a man whose eye was open in his day. He was a man of
splendid natural genius. We puzzle over the definition of genius; but
perhaps it is only the open eye, the power to see...
-
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...
-
Numbers 23:18; Numbers 23:7; Numbers 22:31; Numbers 24:16; Numbers
24:4
-
Whose eyes are open — Heb. Who had his eyes shut, but now open. The
eyes of his mind, which God had opened in a peculiar and prophetical
manner, whence prophets are called Seers, 1 Samuel 9:9. It impl...