Numbers 23:22 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 23:22

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

KJV

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ASV

God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

WEB

God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

YLT

God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;

DBT

God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Psalms 92:10
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Numbers 24:8
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.
Esther 4:14
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Deuteronomy 33:17
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Job 39:9
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

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The power which had done that could never be restrained, never resisted; and, having begun so gloriously, he would no doubt finish gloriously. While they had God's presence with them they had the strength of a unicorn, able to make head against all that opposed them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn--Israel is not as they were at the Exodus, a horde of poor, feeble, spiritless people, but powerful and invincible as a reem--that is, a rhinoceros (Job 39:9;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Out of Egypt - Namely, by a strong hand, and in spite of all their enemies, and therefore it is in vain to seek or hope to overcome them. He - Israel, whom God brought out of Egypt, such change of numbers being very common in the Hebrew language. The sense is, Israel is not now what he was in Egypt, a poor, weak, dispirited, unarmed people, but high and strong and invincible.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

NUM 23:22EXO 20:2 DEU 5:6
NUM 23:22EXO 20:2 HOS 13:4
NUM 23:22EXO 20:2 PSA 81:10
NUM 23:22EXO 20:2 LEV 26:13
NUM 23:22EXO 20:2 EXO 13:3
NUM 23:22NUM 24:8 PSA 45:5
NUM 23:22PSA 22:21 2TI 4:17
NUM 23:22PSA 22:21 1PE 5:8

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