John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 24:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, etc.] Being on Mount Peor: and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; in that exact order in which they were directed to encamp under four standards, and so many tribes under each standard, (<040201>Numbers 2:1-34) and the Spirit of God came upon him; not in his grace but in his gifts; not as a spirit of sanctification, but as a spirit of prophecy, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan paraphrase it; and so sometimes the Spirit of God in this sense has come upon wicked men, as on Caiaphas and others, (<431151>John 11:51 <400722>Matthew 7:22,23).

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