And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
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Gill's Exposition
And he looked on the Kenites,.... Not the family and posterity of Jethro, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Abendana; for they were not a people by themselves, but were now encamped with Israel, and went with…
Barnes' Notes
When he looked - i. e., in spirit, as he saw the Star Num 24:17. Amalek was the first of the nations - Rather, is pre-eminent among the neighboring nations: compare the same expression in Amo 6:1.…
The office of prophets was both to bless and to prophesy in the name of the Lord. Balaam, as a prophet, per force had blessed Israel; here he foretels future events.
I. His preface is much the same as…
Cambridge Bible
The utterance on Amalek.
And he saw Amalek The country of the Amalekites and that of the Kenites (Num 24:24) might be just visible from the Moabite hills, lying far to the south and south-west.
the…
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