Numbers 24 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

¹ ^a Where the Israelites camped.

³ ^b His eies were shut vp before, in respect of the cleare visions which he sawe after: some read, were open.

⁴ ^c Thogh he laye as in a slepe, yet the eies of his minde were open.

⁵ ^! Balaam prophesieth of the great prosperitie that shulde come vnto Israel.

⁶ ^/ Or, tentes.

⁷ ^e Which name was commen to the Kings of Amalek.

⁷ ^d His prosperitie and posteritie shalbe verie great.

¹⁰ ^f In token of angre.

¹¹ ^g Thus the wicked burthen God when thei can not compasse their wicked enterprises.

¹⁴ ^/ Ebr. counsel.

¹⁴ ^h He gaue also wicked counsel to cause the Israelites to sinne, that thereby God might forsake them, {Chap. 31,16}.

¹⁷ ^! Also of the comming of Christ.

¹⁷ ^l He shal subdue all that resist: for of Sheth came Noah, and of Noah all the worlde.

¹⁷ ⁱ Meaning Christ.

¹⁷ ^k That is, the princes.

¹⁹ ^m Of the Edomites.

²⁰ ⁿ The Amalekites first made warre against Israel, as {Chap. 14,45}.

²⁰ ^! The destruction of the Amalekites, and of the Kenites.

²¹ ^/ Or, Midianites.

²¹ ^o Make thy self as strong as thou canst.

²² ^/ Or, thou Kain shalt.

²³ ^p Some read, Oh, who shal not perish when the enemie, that is, Antichrist, shal set him selfe vp as God?

²⁴ ^r Meaning, Eber, or the Jews, for rebelling against God.

²⁴ ^q The Grecians and Romains.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Numbers 24