19Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
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And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? …
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-25)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 that, Num. 24:3 ; 4 . He personates a true prophet admirably well, God permitting and directing him to do so, because, whatever he was, the prophecy itself was a true prophecy. He boasts, 1. That his…
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