Numbers 23:7 | DiscipleDeck

Bible Commentary

Numbers 23:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

he took: Numbers 23:18, Numbers 24:3, Numbers 24:15, Numbers 24:23; Job 27:1, Job 29:1; Psalms 78:2; Ezekiel 17:2, Ezekiel 20:49; Micah 2:4; Habakkuk 2:6; Matthew 13:33, Matthew 13:35; Mark 12:12

parable: The word mashal:, which as a verb is to rule, have authority, and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed in parabolic or figurative language. All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God (Numbers 24:2).

Aram: Numbers 22:5; Genesis 10:22, Genesis 28:2, Genesis 28:7; Deuteronomy 23:4

Come: Numbers 22:6, Numbers 22:11, Numbers 22:17; Proverbs 26:2

defy Israel: 1 Samuel 17:10, 1 Samuel 17:25-26, 1 Samuel 17:36, 1 Samuel 17:45; 2 Samuel 21:21, 2 Samuel 23:9

More for Numbers 23:7

Continue with other commentaries and DiscipleDeck content connected to this verse, chapter, or topic.

Other commentaries

Numbers 23 — OverviewNumbers 23 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn this chapter we have Balak and Balaam busy at work to do Israel a mischief, and, for ought that appears, neither Moses nor the elders of Israel know any thing of the matter, nor are in a capacity to break the…Numbers 23 — OverviewNumbers 23 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeNumbers 23:1, Balak’s sacrifices; Numbers 23:7, Balaam’s parables; Numbers 23:13, Balak’s sacrifices; Numbers 23:18, Balaam’s parables; Numbers 23:25, Balak’s sacrifices.Numbers 23 — OverviewNumbers 23 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter gives an account of the sacrifices offered by Balak and Balaam, and how God met Balsam, and put a word into his mouth, which he delivered in the presence of the king of Moab and his princes, Nu 23:1, the…Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:7 · The Pulpit CommentaryTook up his parable. מָשָׁל (cf. Numbers 21:27). Balaam's utterances were in the highest degree poetical, according to the antithetic form of the poetry of that day, which delighted in sustained parallelisms, in lofty…Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:7 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd he took up his parable, and said,.... Pronounced the word, the prophetic word, which God had put into his mouth; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it, the parable of his prophecy; so called, because, in…