Numbers 24:8

God brings him out of Egypt, 1 with strength like a wild ox. 2 He will eat up the nations who fight against him. 2 He will break their bones to pieces. 2 He will shoot them with his arrows. 1

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In The King James Version

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

In Context

7Water flows from their buckets, 2 and their seed is well-watered. 1 Their king is to be higher than Agag, 2 and their kingdom will be honored. 1

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.”

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Cross References

Exodus 23:22If you indeed obey his voice and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Numbers 21:5The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we hate this miserable food.”

Numbers 23:24Look, 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.”

Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap disasters on them; 1 I will shoot all my arrows at them; 1

Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron rod; 1 like a jar of a potter, you will smash them to pieces.” 1

Psalms 45:5Your arrows are sharp; 1 the peoples fall under you; 1 your arrows are in the hearts of the king's enemies. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 24:2-10

Balaam Blesses Israel a Third Time. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 4 He hath said, which heard the words of God,… Read the whole commentary →

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