Bilangan 23:7

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Lalu Bileam mengucapkan sanjaknya, katanya: "Dari Aram aku disuruh datang oleh Balak, raja Moab, dari gunung-gunung sebelah timur: Datanglah, katanya, kutuklah bagiku Yakub, dan datanglah, kutuklah Israel.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu Bileam mengucapkan sanjaknya, katanya: "Dari Aram aku disuruh datang oleh Balak, raja Moab, dari gunung-gunung sebelah timur: Datanglah, katanya, kutuklah bagiku Yakub, dan datanglah, kutuklah Israel.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dimulai Bileam mengatakan misalnya, sabdanya: Bahwa Balak, raja Moab itu, telah menyuruh aku datang dari Aram, dari gunung-gunung yang di sebelah timur, titahnya: Marilah engkau, kutukilah bagiku akan Yakub! marilah engkau, serahkanlah Israel kepada kebinasaan!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he took: Numbers 23:18, Numbers 24:3, Numbers 24:15, Numbers 24:23, Job 27:1, Job 29:1, Psalms 78:2, Ezekiel 17:2, Ezekiel 20:49, Micah 2:4, Habakkuk 2:6, Matthew 13:33, Matthew 13:35, Mark 12:12

parable: The word mashal, which as a verb is to rule, have authority, and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed in parabolic or figurative language. All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God - Numbers 24:2.

Aram: Numbers 22:5, Genesis 10:22, Genesis 28:2, Genesis 28:7, Deuteronomy 23:4

Come: Numbers 22:6, Numbers 22:11, Numbers 22:17, Proverbs 26:2

defy Israel: 1 Samuel 17:10, 1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:36, 1 Samuel 17:45, 2 Samuel 21:21, 2 Samuel 23:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:30 - mount of the east Genesis 22:21 - Aram Genesis 29:1 - came Numbers 23:11 - General 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Aram Job 1:3 - of the east Psalms 49:4 - parable Isaiah 2:6 - from the east Ezekiel 16:57 - Syria Ezekiel 25:4 - of the east

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took up his parable, and said,.... Pronounced the word, the prophetic word, which God had put into his mouth; so the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it, the parable of his prophecy; so called, because, in prophecies, often figurative and enigmatical expressions are used, and also sententious and weighty ones, either of which are sometimes called parables; see Psalms 78:2,

Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram; or Syria, that is, from Mesopotamia, as the Septuagint translate it; and so the Targum of Jonathan, from Aram or Syria, which is by Euphrates:

out of the mountains of the east: it being the mountainous part of Mesopotamia or Chaldea, where Balaam dwelt, which lay to the east of the land of Moab:

saying, come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel; he owns that this was Balak's view in sending for him; nor does he deny that be himself came with such an intention, could he be able to execute it; even curse the people of Israel, with the utmost abhorrence and detestation of them, and in the most furious and wrathful manner, as the last word used signifies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Aram - Or, “highland.” This term denotes the whole elevated region, from the northeastern frontier of Palestine to the Euphrates and the Tigris. The country between these streams was especially designated “Aram-naharaim,” or “Aram of the two rivers:” the Greeks called it Mesopotamia; and here, according to Deuteronomy 23:4, was Balaam’s home. Compare Numbers 22:5 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:7. And he took up his parable — משלו meshalo, see on Numbers 21:27. All these oracular speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original. They are highly dignified, and may be considered as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God; for it is expressly said, Numbers 23:5, that God put the word in Balaam's mouth, and that the Spirit of God came upon him, Numbers 24:2.