Numbers 23:22
God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 12:41Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 14:18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his horsemen.
Numbers 22:5He sent therefore messengers to Balaam the son of Beer, a soothsayer, who dwelt by the river of the land of the children of Ammon, to call him, and to say: Behold a people is come out of Egypt, that hath covered the face of the earth, sitting over against me.
Deuteronomy 33:17His beauty as of the firstling of a bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhinoceros: with them shall he push the nations even to the ends of the earth These are the multitudes of Ephraim and these the thousands of Manasses.
Job 39:10Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?
Psalms 22:21Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:14-30
Balaam Again Blesses Israel. ( b. c. 1452.) 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder. 16 And the Lord met Balaam,… Read the whole commentary →