Bilangan 24:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Diucapkannyalah juga sanjaknya, katanya: "Celaka! Siapakah yang akan hidup, apabila Allah melakukan hal itu?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Diucapkannyalah juga sanjaknya, katanya: "Celaka! Siapakah yang akan hidup, apabila Allah melakukan hal itu?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi dimulainya mengatakan misalnya, katanya: Wai, siapakah boleh hidup, apabila diadakan Allah segala perkara ini?

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, the man whose eye is open, hath sayde: ¹⁶ He hath said that heareth the wordes of God, and hath the knowledge of the most hygh, and beholdeth the vision of the almightie, and that falleth and his eyes are opened. ¹⁷ I shall see him, but not nowe, I shall beholde him, but not nigh: There shall come a starre of Iacob, and ryse a scepter of Israel, & shall smyte the coastes of Moab, and vndermine all the chyldren of Seth. ¹⁸ And Edom shalbe possessed, & Seir shall fall to the possession of their enemies, and Israel shall do manfully. ¹⁹ Out of Iacob shall come he that shall haue dominion, and shall destroy the remnaunt of the citie. ²⁰ And when he loked on Amaleck, he toke vp his parable, and said: Amaleck is the first of the nations, but his latter ende shall perishe vtterly. ²¹ And he loked on the Kenites, and toke vp his parable, and sayde: Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rocke. ²² Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shalbe rooted out, vntyll Assur take thee prisoner. ²³ And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Alas, who shall lyue when God doth this? ²⁴ The shippes also shall come out of the coast of Chittim, and subdue Assur, and subdue Eber, and he hym selfe shall perishe at the last.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when God: Numbers 23:23, 2 Kings 5:1, Malachi 3:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:7 - he took Joel 2:11 - who Acts 15:17 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took up his parable, and said,.... Or delivered another prophecy, having made some little pause:

alas, who shall live when God doeth this? referring not to what goes before, but to what follows; though Jarchi and Aben Ezra think it refers to the Assyria conquering and carrying captive, not only the Kenites, but all the nations of the world, so that there was no living comfortably in it on his account; but this is said after Balaam had taken up his parable again, and so respects what follows, as the destruction of the Persian empire by Alexander, in which Ashur or the Assyrians were included; and the destruction of the Jews by the Romans more especially; which was such as had not been the like from the beginning of the world, Matthew 24:21, and perhaps may have a further respect to the affliction of the witnesses and church of Christ by antichrist; see Daniel 12:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When God doeth this - The eventual carrying away of the allies of Israel by Assyria presented itself to Balaam as the ruin of all peace and safety upon earth. One prediction was howerer, yet wanting, and is next given, namely, that the conquerors of the Kenites should fare no better than the Kenites themselves.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 24:23. Who shall live when God doeth this! — There are two senses in which these words may be taken: -

1. That the event is so distant that none then alive could possibly live to see it.

2. That the times would be so distressing and desolating that scarcely any should be able to escape.

The words are very similar to those of our Lord, and probably are to be taken in the same sense: "Wo to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days."