Numbers 24:7-9

Amplified Bible

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“Water [that is, great blessings] will flow from his buckets,
And his offspring will live by many waters,
And his king will be higher than ^[a]Agag,
And his kingdom shall be exalted.
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“God brought Israel out of Egypt;
Israel has ^[b]strength like the wild ox;
He will devour [Gentile] nations, his adversaries (enemies),
And will crush their bones in pieces,
And shatter them with his arrows.
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“He bowed down [to rest], he lies down as a lion;
And as a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Blessed [of God] is he who blesses you,
And cursed [of God] is he who curses you.”^(A)

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:7 “Agag” was the title of the Amalekite kings, and here it represents the kingdom of the Gentiles. The Amalekites at that time were the most powerful of all the desert tribes (Num 24:20).
Numbers 24:8 Lit horns.

Numbers 24:7-9

New International Version

⁷Water will flow from their buckets;
their seed will have abundant water.

“Their king will be greater than Agag;^(A)
their kingdom will be exalted.^(B)

⁸“God brought them out of Egypt;
    they have the strength of a wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
    and break their bones in pieces;^(C)
    with their arrows they pierce them.^(D)
⁹Like a lion they crouch and lie down,
    like a lioness^(E)—who dares to rouse them?