Numbers 24:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

God

Numbers 21:5

Numbers 23:22

Shall eat

Numbers 14:9

Numbers 23:24

Deuteronomy 7:1

Break

Pierce

General references

Joshua 24:10

Bible References

God

And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

Shall eat

Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

Break

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Pierce

I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They are in the heart of the king's enemies.

For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

General references

but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.