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Balaam, the so-called non Israelite prophet of the LORD, Numbers 22:2 part five NIV

Balaam's Third Oracle Numbers 24:4-14 part three concluded

who sees a vision from the Almighty,
who falls prostrate, and whose
eyes are opened.

How beautiful are your tents,
O Jacob,
your dwelling places, O Israel!

Like valleys they spread out,
like gardens beside a river,
like aloes planted by the LORD,
like cedars beside the waters.
Water will flow from their buckets,
their seed will have abundant
water.

Their king will be greater than Agag;
their kingdom will be exalted.

God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a 
wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
and break their bones in pieces;
with their arrows they
pierce them.
Like a lion they crouch and lie
down,
like a lioness--who dares to rouse
them?

["May those who bless you be
blessed
and those who curse you be
cursed!" Reference to Genesis 12:1-3]

Then Balak's anger burned against Balaam.  He struck his hands together
and said to him,"I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have bless-
ed them these three times.  Now leave at once and go home!" I said that I
would reward you handsomely, but the LORD has kept you from being re-
warded."
Balaam answered Balak,"Did I not tell the messengers you sent to me,'
Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not
do anything on my own accord, good or bad,to go beyond the command
of the LORD--and I must say only what the LORD says?" Now I am going
back to my own people, but come let me warn you of what this people will
do to your people in days to come."

Balaam's Fourth Oracle Numbers 24:15-19  

Then he uttered this oracle:

"The oracle of Balaam son of Beor.
the oracle of one whose eyes sees
clearly,
the oracle of one who hears the
words of God,
who has knowledge from the
Most High,
who sees a vision from the
Almighty,
who falls prostrate, and whose
eyes are opened:

I see him, but not now;
I behold him; but not near
[A star (the Messiah) will come out of Jacob;
a scepter will rise out of
Israel (the King of the Jews).]
He will crush the foreheads of
Moab,
the skulls of all of the sons of
Sheth.
Edom will be conquered;
Seir, his enemy will be
conquered;
but Israel will grow strong.
A ruler will come out of Jacob
and destroy the survivors of the
city."

Balaam's Final Oracle Numbers 24:20 to 24  part one

Then Balaam saw Amelek and uttered
his oracle:

"Amelek was first among the
nations,
but he will come to ruin at last,"

Then he saw the Kenites 

Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954/October Country
July 15, 2024

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