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

The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest [this] miserable food."

God, who brings them out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for them.

Shall eat

Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. {Their protection} has been turned from them; Yahweh [is] with us. You should not fear them."

Look! [the] people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats [the] prey and drinks the blood of the slain."

"When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you [are] about to enter {into it} to take possession of it, and he drives out many nations {before you}, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you,

Break

You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."

I lie down until morning; like lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

Israel [is] a sheep scattered, lions drove [them] away. [The] first who devoured it [was] the king of Assyria, and now [at] the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."

The king then commanded, and these men were brought {who had accused Daniel}, and they threw them and their children and their wives into {the lion pit}, and they had not reached the floor of the pit {before} the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones.

Pierce

I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them.

For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.

Your arrows [are] sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.

For look, I [am] going to stir up, and I [am] going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from [the] land of [the] north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows [are] like a warrior [who has] achieved success, he does not return without success.

General references

but I was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he richly blessed you. So I rescued you from his hand,