Num 22:7, 17-18, 24:11-13, 1Sa 9:8, 1Ki 13:7, 22:3, 2Ki 8:8-9 | TSK | STEP

Numbers 22:7

rewards of divination.

1Sa 9:7,8; Isa 56:11; Eze 13:19; Mic 3:11; Ro 16:18; 1Ti 6:9,10

Tit 1:11; 2Pe 2:15; Jude 1:11

Numbers 22:17-18

I will promote.

24:11; De 16:9; Es 5:11; 7:9; Mt 4:8,9; 16:26

and I will do.

23:2,3,29,30; Mt 14:7

come.

curse me.An erroneous opinion prevailed, both in those days and in after ages, that some men had the power, by the help of their gods, to devote, not only particular persons, but cities and whole armies, to destruction. This they are said to have done sometimes by words of imprecation; of which there was a set form among some people, which Æschines calls [diorizomenen aran ,] "the determinate curse." Macrobius has a whole chapter on this subject. He gives us two of the ancient forms used in reference to the destruction of Carthage; the first, which was only pronounced by the dictator, or general, was to call over the protecting deities to their side, and the other to devote the city to destruction, which they were supposed to have abandoned. The Romans held, that no city would be taken till its tutelary god had forsaken it; or if it could be taken, it would be unlawful, as it would be sacrilege to lead the gods into captivity. Virgil intimates, that Troy was destroyed because {Excessere omnes adytis, arisque relictis dii, quibus imperium hoc steterat,} "All the gods, by whose assistance the empire had hitherto been preserved, forsook their altars and temples." See more on this subject in Dr. A. Clarke, Bp. Patrick, and Burder's Oriental Customs, No. 734.

If Balak.

24:13; Tit 1:16

I cannot.

23:26; 24:13; 1Ki 22:14; 2Ch 18:13; Da 5:17; Ac 8:20

Numbers 24:11-13

I thought.

22:17,37

the Lord.

Mt 19:28-30; Ac 8:20; Php 3:8; Heb 11:24-26; 1Pe 5:2,3; 2Jo 1:8

22:18,38

1 Samuel 9:8

I have here at hand. Heb. there is found in my hand.

1 Kings 13:7

refresh.

Ge 18:5; Jud 13:15; 19:21

I will give.As great men in the East make no presents to equals or inferiors when visited, Sir John Chardin thinks that the king intended by this to treat the prophet as his superior.

1Sa 9:7,8; 2Ki 5:15; Jer 40:5; Mal 1:10; Ac 8:18-20; 1Pe 5:2