Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
BALAAM FORETELLS ISRAEL'S HAPPINESS. (Num. 24:1-25)
to seek for—that is, to use enchantments. His experience on the two former occasions [Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:15] had taught him that these superstitious accompaniments of his worship were useless, and therefore he now simply looked towards the camp of Israel, either with a secret design to curse them, or to await the divine afflatus.
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