“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!”
Balaam’s Second Prophecy
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Numbers 23:9
The rocks - Upon which I now stand. I see him - I see the people, according to thy desire, Numbers 22:41, but cannot improve that sight to the end for which thou didst design it, to curse them. The people shall dwell alone - This people are of a distinct kind from others, God's peculiar people, separated from all other nations, as in religion and laws, so also in divine protection; and therefore enchantments cannot have that power against them which they have against other persons and people.
Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Numbers 23:9:
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