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 spoke against God and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

God brought them out of Egypt; he has, as it were the strength of a unicorn.

Shall eat

Therefore, do not be rebels against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.

Behold the people, who shall rise up as a great lion and lift up himself as a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land into which thou must enter to inherit it and has cast out many Gentiles 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 reckoned that I had until morning. As a lion, he broke all my bones: from the morning even unto the night thou shalt make an end of me.

Israel has been like scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away; first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and even before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

Pierce

I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.

Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Thine arrows, by which the peoples fall under thee, penetrate the heart of the enemies of the king.

For, behold, I awake and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and from there they shall set themselves in array against her; she shall be taken; their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert one, who shall not return in vain.

General references

But I would not hearken unto Balaam; to the contrary, he blessed you repeatedly, and I delivered you out of his hand.