Bilangan 24:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika dilihat Bileam, bahwa baik di mata TUHAN untuk memberkati Israel, ia tidak mencarikan pertanda lagi seperti yang sudah-sudah, tetapi ia menghadapkan mukanya ke arah padang gurun.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika dilihat Bileam, bahwa baik di mata TUHAN untuk memberkati Israel, ia tidak mencarikan pertanda lagi seperti yang sudah-sudah, tetapi ia menghadapkan mukanya ke arah padang gurun.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hata, maka apabila dilihat Bileam bahwa baiklah kepada pemandangan Tuhan diberkatinya Israel, maka tiada ia pergi seperti pada bermula kali dan pada kedua kali akan mengambil pesona seranah, melainkan dipalingkannya mukanya arah ke padang belantara.

Contextual Overview

¹ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lorde that he should blesse Israel, he went not as he dyd twise before to meete a soothsaying: but set his face towarde the wyldernesse. ² And Balaam lift vp his eyes, and loked vpon Israel as he lay accordyng to his tribes, and the spirite of God came vpon hym. ³ And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, and the man whose eyes is open hath sayde: ⁴ He hath sayde whiche heareth the wordes of God, and seeth the visions of the almightie, and falleth downe with open eyes. ⁵ Howe goodly are thy tentes O Iacob, and thyne habitations O Israel? ⁶ Euen as the valleys are they layde abrode, & as gardens by the riuers side, as the tentes whiche the Lorde hath pitched, and as cypres trees beside the waters. ⁷ The water droppeth out of his bucket, & his seede shalbe in many waters, and his king shalbe hier then Agag, and his kingdome shalbe exalted. ⁸ God brought hym out of Egypt, his strength is as the Unicorne: He shall eate the nations his enemies, & gnawe their bones, and pearce them through with his arrowes. ⁹ He couched hym selfe, and lay downe as a Lion, and as an elder Lion: who shall stirre hym vp? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saw: Numbers 22:13, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 31:16, 1 Samuel 24:20, 1 Samuel 26:2, 1 Samuel 26:25, Revelation 2:14

at other times: Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:15

to seek for enchantments: Heb. to the meeting of enchantments, Numbers 23:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:37 - Moabites Genesis 31:21 - set his Numbers 3:17 - Gershon Numbers 23:16 - General Joshua 13:22 - Balaam Isaiah 19:25 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.

Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sara were both olde, and well stryken in age: and it ceassed to be with Sara after the maner as it is with women.

Genesis 21:5
And Abraham was an hundreth yere olde, when his sonne Isahac was borne vnto him.

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.

Genesis 24:3
And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:

Genesis 24:35
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.

Genesis 25:20
And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 49:25
From thy fathers God which hath helped thee, and from the almyghtie which hath blessed thee with blessinges from heauen aboue, with blessynges of the deepe that lyeth vnder, & with blessynges of the brestes and of the wombe.

1 Kings 1:1
And king Dauid was olde and stricken in yeres, so that whe they couered him with clothes, he caught no heate.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Balsam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel,.... That it was good in his sight, what he approved of, and was well-pleasing to him, and that it was his determined mind that Israel should be blessed, and not cursed, from which there was no turning him, by offering sacrifices to him, and much less by his sorceries and divinations:

he went not as at other times; or, "as at a time in a time" q, at two times, of which see Numbers 23:3, he abode in the place where the sacrifices were offered, and did not depart to another at some distance, as he had twice before done:

to seek for enchantments; which it seems he used before, for he not only offered sacrifices to the true God, which yet were attended with superstitious rites, but he made use of his divining art also; and not only went to meet with God, and hear what he would say to him, but consulted the devil also, being willing to have two strings to his bow, and that, if possible, he might carry his point, and get what his covetous and ambitious mind was desirous of: the words may be literally rendered, "to meet enchantments" r; but what should be meant by the phrase is not easy to say; I should rather choose to render them, "to meet serpents", and make use of them in his divinations, make observations on them, and predictions from them: one sort of divination is called "ophiomancy", or divining by serpents; so Calchas, on seeing a serpent devour eight sparrows with their dam, foretold the duration of the siege of Troy s:

but he set his face towards the wilderness: where the people of Israel lay encamped, not with an intention to bless them, though he saw it pleased the Lord, but to take an opportunity, if he could, without his leave, to curse them; and therefore he did not go out as he did before, to know his will, but stood by the sacrifice, with his face to the wilderness, where the people were, to take any advantage that offered.

q כפעם בפעם "sicut vice in vice", Montanus, Vatablus. r לקראת נחשים "in occursum auguriorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. s Homer. Iliad. 2. see more instances in Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 1. c. 3. col. 21, 22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIV

Balaam, finding that God was determined to bless Israel, seeks

no longer for enchantments, 1.

The Spirit of God coming upon him, he delivers a most important

prophetic parable, 2-9.

Balak's anger is kindled against him, and he commands him to

depart to his own country, 10,11.

Balaam vindicates his conduct, 12, 13;

and delivers a prophecy relative to the future destruction of

Moab by the Israelites, 14-17;

also of Edom, 18, 19;

of the Amalekites, 20;

and of the Kenites, 21, 22.

Predicts also the destruction of Asshur and Eber, by the naval

power of Chittim, which should afterwards be itself destroyed,

23, 24.

Balaam and Balak separate, 25.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIV

Verse Numbers 24:1. He went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments — We have already had occasion to observe that the proper meaning of the word נחש nachash is not easily ascertained; see Numbers 21:9, and see on Genesis 3:1. Here the plural נחשים nechashim is rendered enchantments; but it probably means no more than the knowledge of future events. When Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he therefore thought it unnecessary to apply for any farther prophetic declarations of God's will as he had done before, for he could safely infer every good to this people, from the evident disposition of God towards them.