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“Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah” is one of the best-known hymns in the world. Yet the book of Numbers, whose story that hymn summarizes, is seldom read. Why? “Its very title puts the modern reader off,” writes Gordon Wenham. “In ancient time numbers were seen as mysterious and symbolic, a key to reality and the mind of God himself. Today they are associated with computers and the...

Josephus25 identified Asshur with the Seleucid empire of Antiochus Epiphanes. The New Testament does not cite the prophecies of Balaam explicitly, but there are probable allusions to it in Luke 1:78; Revelation 2:26–28; 22:16 and, of course, Christ’s birth was announced by a star (Matt. 2:1–10). If the primary fulfilment of Balaam’s prophecies was in the rise of David and the defeat of his foes, a further fulfilment may surely be seen in Jesus, the son of David, who has conquered sin and death,
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