The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 24:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

A lion. אַרִי. A great lion. לָבִיא. See on Numbers 23:24, and Genesis 49:9. Blessed is he that blesseth thee, &c. In these words Balaam seems to refer to the terms of Balak's first message (Numbers 22:6).

Far from being affected by blessings and cursings from without, Israel was itself a source of blessing or cursing to others according as they treated him.

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