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King James Version

Numbers 24:14

And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balaam;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Advertise;   Balaam;   Balak;   Moab, Moabites;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Targums;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Advertise;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Balaam;   Ḳara, Joseph ben Simeon;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
Lexham English Bible
And now, look, I am about to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the following days."
English Standard Version
And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."
New Century Version
Now I am going back to my own people, but I will tell you what these people will do to your people in the future."
New English Translation
And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future."
Amplified Bible
"And now, look, I am going to my people; come, I will advise you as to what this people [Israel] will do to your people [Moab] in the days to come."
New American Standard Bible
"So now, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you of what this people will do to your people in the days to come."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And nowe behold, I goe vnto my people: come, I will aduertise thee what this people shall doe to thy folke in the later dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the last days."
Contemporary English Version
So I'm going back home, but I'm leaving you with a warning about what the Israelites will someday do to your nation."
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: vii) But now that I am going back to my own people, come, I will warn you what this people will do to your people in the acharit-hayamim.
Darby Translation
And now behold, I go to my people: come, I will admonish thee what this people will do to thy people at the end of days.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now I am going back to my own people. But I will give you this warning. I will tell you what these Israelites will do to you and your people in the future."
George Lamsa Translation
And now, behold. I am going to my land; come, therefore, and I will give you counsel what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
Good News Translation
Balaam said to Balak, "Now I am going back to my own people, but before I go, I am warning you what the people of Israel will do to your people in the future."
Christian Standard Bible®
Now I am going back to my people, but first, let me warn you what these people will do to your people in the future.”
Literal Translation
And now, behold, I go to my people. Come, and I will counsel you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now beholde, for so moch as I go to my people, come therfore, I wyll shewe the what this people shal do vnto yi people after this tyme.
American Standard Version
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Bible in Basic English
So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And nowe behold, I go vnto my people: Come therfore, and I wyll aduertise thee what this people shall do to thy folke in the latter dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, behold, I go unto my people; come, and I will announce to thee what this people shall do to thy people in the end of days.'
King James Version (1611)
And now beholde, I goe vnto my people: come therefore, and I will aduertise thee, what this people shall doe to thy people in the latter dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, behold, I return to my place; come, I will advise thee of what this people shall do to thy people in the last days.
English Revised Version
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Berean Standard Bible
Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Netheles Y schal go to my puple, and Y schal yyue counsel to thee, what thi puple schal do in the laste tyme to this puple.
Young's Literal Translation
and, now, lo, I am going to my people; come, I counsel thee [concerning] that which this people doth to thy people, in the latter end of the days.'
Update Bible Version
And now, look, I am going to my people: come, [and] I will advise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
Webster's Bible Translation
And now, behold, I go to my people: come [therefore], I will advertise thee what this people will do to thy people in the latter days.
World English Bible
Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
New King James Version
And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days."
New Living Translation
Now I am returning to my own people. But first let me tell you what the Israelites will do to your people in the future."
New Life Bible
Now see, I am going to my people. Come, I will tell you what this people will do to your people in the days to come."
New Revised Standard
So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, behold me! going to my own people, - Come now! let me advise thee, what this people shall do unto thy people in the after-part of the days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Revised Standard Version
And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come."

Contextual Overview

10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. 11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour. 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord , to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak? 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will advertise: Numbers 24:17, Numbers 31:7-18, Micah 6:5, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:14

the latter: Genesis 49:1, Isaiah 24:22, Jeremiah 48:47, Jeremiah 49:39, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 10:14, Hosea 3:5, Acts 2:17, 2 Timothy 3:1

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:16 - these caused Deuteronomy 2:4 - they shall Deuteronomy 30:7 - General Isaiah 2:2 - in the last Isaiah 30:8 - the time to come Jeremiah 30:24 - in Ezekiel 38:8 - many days John 11:51 - he prophesied 1 Timothy 4:1 - the latter Hebrews 1:2 - these

Cross-References

Genesis 15:8
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 24:2
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis 24:8
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
Genesis 24:9
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:11
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24:13
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, behold, I go unto my people,.... According to thine order, I shall not stay to make thee uneasy with my company, only I crave thy patience to hear me a little before we part:

come therefore, and I will advertise thee; about some things that shall come to pass in future time, respecting this people, and thine, and other nations, both near and remote; and he hoped by this to bring him into a better temper, and part good friends: or "I will counsel thee"; what thou shall do, as the Targum of Onkelos, and so makes a sentence of this of itself, independent of, and distinct from what follows, beginning the next clause thus,

and I will show them what this people, c. referring the former to the counsel Balaam gave to Balak, how to seduce the people into idolatry and the Targum of Jonathan expresses it at large;

"come, I will counsel thee, go and prepare victualling houses, and place lewd women there to sell food and drink at a low price, and bring this people to eat, and drink, and be drunken; and let them lie with them, and deny their God, and they will be delivered into thine hands in a little time, and many of them will fall;''

which advice was followed, Numbers 25:1 and is referred to,

Numbers 31:16 but though Balaam did give him such advice before he left him, which is highly probable, yet it is not what is intended here, since what follows is closely connected with the above clause, and contains the thing he advertised or advised him of:

what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days; not what the Moabites should do to the Israelites now, as the Vulgate Latin version, quite contrary to the original text, but what the Israelites should do to the Moabites in future times; not only in the times of David, by whom they were subdued, 2 Samuel 8:2 but in much later times, even in the times of Alexander, or King Jannaeus, who overcame them, as Josephus b relates. Now this might be said to Balak to make him easy, that it would not be until the latter days, many hundreds of years hence, ere the people of Israel would fight with Moab, and subdue it; and therefore he need be under no concern about them, since he would meet with no trouble from them in his time, nor his people for years to come.

b Antiqu. l. 13. c. 13. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will advertise thee - i. e., “I will advise thee,” words which refer to the ensuing prophecy.


 
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