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Numbers 22:24

in Numbers 22

Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then the angel of Jehovah stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

KJV

But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

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This verse in Numbers 22

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
In a path of the vineyards - i. e., in a path shut in by vineyard-walls on each side. The progress from the road through the open field Num 22:23 to that walled in, and thence to the strait place, where there was no room to turn Num 22:26, shows that Balaam was approaching a city, no doubt that which was the goal of his journey.

This site's exposition

she turned off the path and went into a field

on Numbers 22:23-25

The space tightens with each obstruction, first open field, then a path between two vineyard walls where a foot gets crushed. Each time the animal saves his life she is beaten for it. A man hired for his sight is riding a beast that sees what he cannot.

This site's exposition

a narrow passage between two vineyards

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown describe such paths as so narrow that a man could hardly pass a beast. The walls were stone or mud fences that kept rains from washing the soil away. Albert Barnes reads them as a sign of a city nearby, so Balaam was near his goal.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyard,.....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The crushing of Balaam's foot, though it was the saving of his life, provoked him so much that he smote his ass the second time, so angry are we apt to be at that which, though a present uneasiness, yet is a real kindness.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards--The roads which lead through fields and vineyards are so narrow that in most parts a man could not pass a beast without care and caution.

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The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙and he stood

    vaiyaamodH5975 →521 times

  • מַלְאַ֣ךְ[the] angel of

    malakhH4397 →213 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּמִשְׁע֖וֹלin [the] narrow way of

    bemisholH4934 →

  • הַכְּרָמִ֑יםthe vineyards

    hakeramimH3754 →92 times

  • גָּדֵ֥רa wall

    gaderH1447 →

  • מִזֶּ֖הfrom this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְגָדֵ֥רand a wall

    vegaderH1447 →

  • מִזֶּֽה׃from this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 22 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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