With what shall I come before the Lord? - The people, thus accused, burst in, as people often do, with professions that they would …

The fruit of my body. —Will God require the sacrifice of such a precious possession, as Isaac was to Abraham, to atone for my wron…

The people will give God everything but what he wants. They begin, you see, by saying that they will bring burnt offerings; they are ready to do th…

The Prophet now inquires, as in the name of the people, what was necessary to be done. He takes these two principles as granted: first, that the pe…

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? If single burnt offerings of bullocks and heifers will not do, will rams…

These verses seem to contain the substance of Balak's consultation with Balaam on how to obtain the favor of Israel's God. A deep conviction of gui…