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 crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

Shall eat

Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

Break

They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.

Pierce

I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.

General references

But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.