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Números 24:7
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De sus manos destilar�n aguas, Y su simiente ser� en muchas aguas: Y ensalzarse ha su rey m�s que Agag, Y su reino ser� ensalzado.
De sus manos destilar�n aguas, y su simiente ser� en muchas aguas; y se enaltecer� su rey m�s que Agag, y su reino ser� engrandecido.
De sus ramos destilar�n aguas, y su simiente ser� en muchas aguas; y su rey se ensalzar� m�s que Agag, y su reino ser� ensalzado.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
pour: Psalms 68:26, Proverbs 5:16-18, Isaiah 48:1
many waters: Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Jeremiah 51:13, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15
his king: Ezra 4:20, Psalms 2:6-10, Psalms 18:43, John 1:49, Philippians 2:10, Philippians 2:11, Revelation 19:16
Agag: 1 Samuel 15:8, 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 15:32, 1 Samuel 15:33
his kingdom: 2 Samuel 5:12, 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Chronicles 14:2, Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 9:7, Daniel 2:44, Revelation 11:15
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:49 - thou also 2 Kings 1:1 - Moab Esther 3:1 - Agagite Psalms 89:27 - higher Ezekiel 19:10 - she was Ezekiel 19:11 - she had
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He shall pour the water out of his buckets,.... That is, God shall plentifully send down rain out of the clouds upon these valleys, gardens, and trees, and make them fruitful; and this may be a figure of the grace of God, with which his churches are watered, and become fruitful by means of the word and ordinances, which is conveyed through them out of the fulness which is in Christ:
and his seed [shall be] in many waters; the seed and offspring of Israel shall be in a place of many waters, in a land of brooks and waters, shall dwell in a well watered land, the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 8:7 or shall be like seed sown near water, or in well watered places, which springs up and brings forth much fruit, see Isaiah 32:20 or shall become, or be over many waters, to which people, kingdoms, and nations, are sometimes compared; and so may denote the multitude of Israel, and the large extent of their dominions, see Revelation 17:1:
and his king shall be higher than Agag; who might be the then present king of Amalek, reckoned one of the greatest kings on earth; and this name, some think, was common to all the kings of Amalek, as Pharaoh to the kings of Egypt; and according to Jarchi and Aben Ezra, this is a prophecy of the first king of Israel, Saul, and of his conquering Agag king of Amalek, for there was one of this name in his time, 1 Samuel 15:7:
and his kingdom shall be exalted; that is, the kingdom of the people of Israel, as it was more especially in the days of David and Solomon; and will be abundantly more in the days of the Messiah, when his kingdom shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth, and the kingdoms of this world shall become his, and he shall reign over all the earth; and so the Jerusalem Targum,
"and the kingdom of the King Messiah shall become very great;''
and so other Jewish writers z refer this prophecy to the days of the Messiah.
z Pesikta in Ketoreth Hassamim, fol. 27. 2. Vid. Philo. de Praemiis, p. 925. Sept. vers. & Targum Jon. in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Balaam’s native soil was ordinarily irrigated by water fetched from the neighboring Euphrates, and carried in buckets suspended from the two ends of a pole. Thus the metaphor would import that Israel should have his own exuberant and unfailing channels of blessing and plenty. Some take the word to be predictive of the future benefits which, through the means of Israel, were to accrue to the rest of the world.
Agag - The name, apparently hereditary (compare 1 Samuel 15:0) to the chieftains of Amalek, means “high.” The words point to the Amalekite kingdom as highly prosperous and powerful at the time (compare Numbers 24:20); but also to be far excelled by the future glories of Israel. The Amalekites never in fact recovered their crushing defeat by Saul (1 Samuel 15:2 ff), though they appear again as foes to Israel in the reign of David (1 Samuel 27:1-12 and 30). The remnant of them was destroyed in the reign of Hezekiah 1 Chronicles 4:43.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Numbers 24:7. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, &c. — Here is a very plain allusion to their method of raising water in different parts of the East. By the well a tall pole is erected, which serves as a fulcrum to a very long lever, to the smaller end of which a bucket is appended. On the opposite end, which is much larger, are many notches cut in the wood, which serve as steps for a man, whose business it is to climb up to the fulcrum, in order to lower the bucket into the well, which, when filled, he raises by walking back on the opposite arm, till his weight brings the bucket above the well's mouth: a person standing by the well empties the bucket into a trench, which communicates with the ground intended to be watered.
His seed shall be in many waters — Another simple allusion to the sowing of rice. The ground must not only be well watered, but flooded, in order to serve for the proper growth of this grain. The rice that was sown in many waters must be the most fruitful. By an elegant and chaste metaphor all this is applied to the procreation of a numerous posterity.
His king shall be higher than Agag — This name is supposed to have been as common to all the Amalekitish kings as Pharaoh was to those of Egypt. But several critics, with the Septuagint, suppose that a small change has taken place here in the original word, and that instead of מאגג meagag, than Agag, we should read מגוג miggog, than Gog. As Gog in Scripture seems to mean the enemies of God's people, then the promise here may imply that the true worshippers of the Most High shall ultimately have dominion over all their enemies.
