Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:10

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:10 - 23:10

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 23:10 - 23:10

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23:1 - 23:1
23:3 - 23:3
23:4 - 23:4
23:7 - 23:7
23:8 - 23:8
23:9 - 23:9
23:10 - 23:10
23:13 - 23:13
23:14 - 23:14
23:18 - 23:18
23:21 - 23:21
23:22 - 23:22
23:23 - 23:23
23:26 - 23:26
23:28 - 23:28

Who can count the dust of Jacob? - an Oriental hyperbole for a very populous nation, as Jacob’s posterity was promised to be (Gen 13:16; Gen 28:14).

the number of the fourth part of Israel - that is, the camp consisted of four divisions; every one of these parts was formidable in numbers.

Let me die the death of the righteous - Hebrew, “of Jeshurun”; or, the Israelites. The meaning is: they are a people happy, above all others, not only in life, but at death, from their knowledge of the true God, and their hope through His grace. Balaam is a representative of a large class in the world, who express a wish for the blessedness which Christ has promised to His people but are averse to imitate the mind that was in Him.