Numbers 23:24
Look, the people rise like a lioness, 2 as a lion emerges and attacks. 1 He does not lie down until he eats his victim 2 and drinks the blood of what he has killed.”
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25Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them or bless them at all.”
Cross References
Genesis 49:27Benjamin is a hungry wolf. 1 In the morning he will devour the prey, 1 and in the evening he will divide the plunder.”
Numbers 24:9He crouches down like a lion, 2 like a lioness. Who dares disturb him? 1 May everyone who blesses him be blessed; 2 may everyone who curses him be cursed.”
Deuteronomy 33:20About Gad, Moses said: 1 Blessed be he who enlarges Gad. 1 He will live there like a lioness, 1 and he will tear off an arm or a head. 1
2 Chronicles 9:18There were six steps to the throne, and a footstool was attached to the throne. On each side of the throne there were armrests with two lions standing beside each of them.
Proverbs 30:30a lion, strongest among wild animals— 1 it does not turn away from anything; 1
Daniel 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be conquered by another people. It will break the other kingdoms into pieces and put an end to all of them, and it will remain forever.
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 →