Numbers 24:8 (BSB)

God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

From Numbers 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 24:8

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 24:1-9: The blessing itself which Balaam here pronounces upon Israel is much the same with the two we had in the foregoing chapter; but the introduction to it is different. I. The method of proceeding here varies much in several instances. 1.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 24:8: God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn,.... Here he repeats what he had said in a former prophecy; see Gill on Num 23:22, he shall eat up the nations his enemies: the seven nations of Canaan, which should be subdued by Israel, and that with as much ease as a lion devours its prey; nor...