“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, cdenounce Israel!’
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
And from the hills I behold him;
There! aA people dwelling alone,
bNot reckoning itself among the nations.
Or number one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die bthe death of the righteous,
And let my end be like his!”
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Numbers 23:7
took up his parable—that is, spoke under the influence of inspiration, and in the highly poetical, figurative, and oracular style of a prophet.
brought me from Aram—This word joined with "the mountains of the East," denotes the upper portion of Mesopotamia, lying on the east of Moab. The East enjoyed an infamous notoriety for magicians and soothsayers (Isaiah 2:6).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Numbers 23:7:
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