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Verse Numbers 22:19. _WHAT THE LORD WILL SAY UNTO ME MORE._] He did
not know but God might make a farther discovery of his will to him,
and therefore he might very innocently seek farther information....
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YE ALSO - i. e., as the other envoys before you. Had Balaam possessed
a sincere spirit of obedience, he would have found in the first
instructions Numbers 22:12 a final decision upon the matter. His
h...
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III. EVENTS IN THE PLAIN OF MOAB FACING THE LAND
1. Balak and Balaam and Balaam's Parables
CHAPTER 22
_ 1. Balak's message to Balaam (Numbers 22:1)_
2. The journey of Balaam (Numbers 22:21)
3. Ba...
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BALAK'S SECOND SUMMONS TO BALAAM, AND YAHWEH'S CONSENT THAT HE SHOULD
GO. This section probably comes from E, and represents not a change of
purpose on the part of God, but a difference of attitude as...
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Balak king of Moab being frightened by the near proximity of the
Israelites sent for Balaam a famous soothsayer to curse them, offering
him liberal payment. Balaam came but refused to utter any oracle...
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Balaam had learnt (Numbers 22:12) that Israel was a people on whom
God's blessing rested. It was therefore impossible for him to go and
curse them. But when Balak's more splendid retinue of princes
tr...
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DISCOURSE: 170
BALAAM’S CHARACTER
Numbers 22:18. _And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of
Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I
cannot go beyond the word of the...
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AND BALAK SENT YET AGAIN PRINCES— Balak, apprehensive that his first
deputation to Balaam was not honourable enough, and that his presents
and promises were not sufficiently large, made a second deput...
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NOW, THEREFORE, I PRAY YOU, &C.— Here, as Bishop Butler well
observes, the iniquity of his heart began to disclose itself. A
thorough honest man would, without hesitation, have repeated his
former ans...
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C. BALAAM YIELDS TO BALAK vv. 15-41
TEXT
Numbers 22:15. And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more
honorable than they. 16. And they came to Balaam, and said to him,
Thus saith Balak the son of...
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_NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY YOU, TARRY YE ALSO HERE THIS NIGHT, THAT I MAY
KNOW WHAT THE LORD WILL SAY UNTO ME MORE._
Tarry ye also here this night. The divine will, as formerly declared,
not being accord...
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BALAAM
The Israelites now enter upon the last stage of their journey to
Canaan. They are within sight of the land of promise, being encamped
at the northern end of the Dead Sea, near the mouth of the...
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THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS
IN THE DESERT
NUMBERS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 22
THE KING OF THE COUNTRY CALLED MOAB REQUESTS BALAAM’S HELP –
NUMBERS 22:1-14
V1 The *Israelites travelle
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TARRY YE ALSO HERE THIS NIGHT. — Balaam knew that God was “not a
man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should
repent” (Numbers 23:19); and yet he indulged the vain expectation
that...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה שְׁב֨וּ נָ֥א בָ זֶ֛ה גַּם
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BALAAM INVOKED
Numbers 22:1
WHILE a part of the army of Israel was engaged in the campaign against
Bashan, the tribes remained "in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan
at Jericho." The topography is...
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BALAAM SENT FOR, TO CURSE ISRAEL
Numbers 22:1
These Chapter s present a surprising contrast between the covetous
prophet and his sublime prophecies. It is clearly possible to be the
mouthpiece of tr...
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We now come to the story of BaIaarn. It is evident that he was a
remarkable personality. He appears in the story as a man of integrity,
who attempted a literal obedience to the will of God. We are arr...
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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may
know what the LORD will say unto me (i) more.
(i) Because he tempted God to require him contrary to his commandment,
his petition...
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To stay. His desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed
already that it was not God's will he should go, came from the
inclination he had to gratify Balac for the sake of worldly gain. An...
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What a babble is man to himself, and to his own heart! under all the
seeming resolution, not to go beyond the word of the LORD, yet the
HOLY GHOST who knew his heart, tells us, that he ran greedily in...
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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...
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_BALAAM_
‘And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of
Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave
to go with you.… And Balaam rose up in the morning, and...
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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...
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Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may
know what the LORD will say unto me more.
Ver. 19. _Tarry also now this night, &c._] Very loath he was to forego
so fat a morsel....
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_Tarry ye also this night_ “Here,” says Bishop Butler, p. 123 of
his _Sermons at the Rolls_, “the iniquity of his heart begins to
disclose itself. An honest man would, without hesitation, have
repeate...
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1 Balaks first message for Balaam is refused.
15 His second message obtaineth him.
22 An Angel would haue slaine him, if his asse had not saued him.
36 Balak intertaineth him.
1 AND the children o...
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Now, therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night that I may
know what the Lord will say unto me more....
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THE SECOND INVITATION ACCEPTED...
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BALAK HIRING BALAAM
(vs.1-21)
Still within Moab, Israel moved again to the plains and camped near
Jordan, across from Jericho. Moab had no power to withstand them,
however, though Balak, king of Moa...
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15-21 A second embassy was sent to Balaam. It were well for us, if we
were as earnest and constant in prosecuting a good work,
notwithstanding disappointments. Balak laid a bait, not only for
Balaam'...
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Possibly he may change his mind, or yield to my renewed suit. Thus he
sought to make God and his conscience stoop to the service of his
pride and covetousness, which was abominable....
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NUMBERS 24:1-25.
These three Chapter s form a distinct section of our book a truly
marvellous section, abounding in rich and varied instruction. In it we
have presented to us, first, the covetous prop...
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Numbers 22:19 stay H3427 (H8798) tonight H3915 know H3045 (H8799) more
H3254 (H8686) LORD H3068 say...
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BALAK'S SECOND ENTREATY TO BALAAM FOLLOWED BY THE THREEFOLD ACTIVITY
OF BALAAM'S ASS (NUMBERS 22:15).
No doubt feeling that the reason why Balaam had not come was because
he was not satisfied with the...
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CONTENTS: Balaam's visit to Balak and the strange warning on the way.
CHARACTERS: God, Balak, Balaam, Angel of Jehovah.
CONCLUSION: The enemies of God's people are restless and unwearied in
their at...
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Numbers 22:5. _To Pethor, which is by the river._ A Pethor was in
Mesopotamia; the river is thought to be the Euphrates, or one of its
branches, distant at least 500 miles from Moab. Deuteronomy 23:4....
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_If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them._
NO CONTRADICTION BETWEEN GOD’S TWO ANSWERS TO BALAAM
The first time God tells him not to go; the second time He bids him
go, but is angry wi...
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 22:15 Money becomes much more of an issue
(vv. Numbers 22:15), but again Balaam awaits God’s permission....
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NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 22:19 WHAT MORE THE LORD WILL SAY TO ME.
Surely Balaam understood that the Lord did not want him to prophesy
against Israel (v....
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
We now enter upon the last division of this Book, which comprises
fifteen Chapter s (22–36).
“In the steppes of Moab the Israelites encamped upon the border of
the Promi...
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EXPOSITION
THE COMING OF BALAAM (Numbers 22:2).
NUMBERS 22:2
BALAK THE SON OF ZIPPOR. The name Balak is connected with a word "to
make waste," and "Zippor" is a small bird. Balak was, as is
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AND so the children of Israel sat forward, and pitched in the plains
of Moab (Numbers 22:1)
Moving now south from this position.
on this side of the Jordan River [on the eastern side of the Jordan
Ri...
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1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:3; Jude 1:11;...
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THE WOES OF THE WICKED BALAAM
_Selections from Numbers 22:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
One of the things which sadden the soul is the way that not only
professing Christians, but real believing Christians...