Numbers Chapter 24 verse 14 Holy Bible
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - I will advertise thee. אִיעָצְך has properly the meaning "advise" (Septuagint, συμβουλεύσω), but it seems to have here the same subordinate sense of giving information which "advise" has with us. The Vulgate here has followed the surmise of the Jewish commentators, who saw nothing in Balaam but the arch-enemy of their race, and has actually altered the text into "dabo consilium quid populus tuus populo huic faciat" (cf. Numbers 31:16).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) I go unto my people.--Such was, probably, the intention of Balaam when he spoke these words. The account of the death of Balaam, however, shows that he still lingered amongst the Moabites.I will advertise thee . . . --The word which is here employed generally means to advise. The announcement which Balaam made to Balak virtually included advice, inasmuch as it foretold the supremacy of Israel over all their foes, and, consequently, implied the folly of opposition to their progress. It does not appear whether it was or was not at this time that Balaam "taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication" (Revelation 2:14). In any case, there does not appear to be any reference to such advice in this verse, although it is inserted in the Targum of Palestine in this place.In the latter days.--Literally, in the end of the days. (See Genesis 49:1, where the same expression occurs, and Note.) The prophecy which follows refers exclusively to the future; and it is divided into four parts by the recurrence of the words "He took up his parable" at Numbers 24:15; Numbers 24:20-21; Numbers 24:23. . . .
