Numbers 24:2

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Summary

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.

Abiding

The spirit

General references

Leviticus 23:42

Numbers 1:52

Bible References

Abiding

How good have been thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel;

'Each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers, do the sons of Israel encamp; over-against round about the tent of meeting they encamp.'

For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.

Fair art thou, my friend, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts.

The spirit

and Jehovah cometh down in the cloud, and speaketh unto him, and keepeth back of the Spirit which is on him, and putteth on the seventy men of the elders; and it cometh to pass at the resting of the Spirit on them, that they prophesy, and do not cease.

and they come in thither to the height, and lo, a band of prophets -- to meet him, and prosper over him doth the Spirit of God, and he prophesieth in their midst.

And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and they see the assembly of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing, set over them, and the Spirit of God is on Saul's messengers, and they prophesy -- they also.

And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?

Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up.

but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, 'Ye have not known anything,

General references

'In booths ye dwell seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in booths,

And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;