Numbers 24:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Numbers 24:3

1 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at ^aother times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

2 And Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel ^aencamped according to their tribes; and ^bthe Spirit of God came upon him.

3 ^aThen he took up his oracle and said:
“The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor,
The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,

4 The utterance of him who hears the words of God,
Who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Who ^afalls down, with eyes wide open:

5 “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob!
Your dwellings, O Israel!

6 Like valleys that stretch out,
^aLike gardens by the riverside,
Like aloes ^bplanted by the Lord,
Like cedars beside the waters.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Numbers 24:3

the man whose eyes are open—that is, a seer (I Samuel 9:9), a prophet, to whom the visioned future was disclosed—sometimes when falling into a sleep (Genesis 15:12-15), frequently into "a trance."

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