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 you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water. And our soul hates this light bread.

God brought them out of Egypt. He has, as it were, the strength of an ox.

Shall eat

Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land. For they are bread for us. Their protection has moved from them, and Jehovah is with us. Do not fear them.

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

When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many 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 mightier than you,

Break

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

I place Him before me until morning, that, as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.

Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones.

And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they threw them into the lions' den; them, their sons, and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they came to the bottom of the den.

Pierce

I will heap evils on them. I will spend My arrows on them.

For You shall make them turn the back; You shall make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their faces.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; peoples fall under You.

For, lo, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there. Their arrows shall be as those of a skillful, mighty man; none shall return in vain.

General references

But I would not listen to Balaam. And he still blessed you. And I delivered you out of his hand.