Numbers 23

^{1 !} Balaam causeth seuen Altars to be buylt.

^{2 a} For among the Gentiles the Kings oft times vsed to sacrifice, as did the Priests.

^{3 /} Or, went vp hier.

^{4 b} Appeared vnto him.

^{5 c} Taught him what to say.

^{5 !} God teacheth him what to answer.

^{7 /} Or, Syria.

^{7 d} Cause that all men may hate & detest them.

^{7 /} Or, prophecie.

^{8 !} Instede of cursing he blesseth Israel.

^{9 e} But shal haue religion & lawes a parte.

^{10 g} The feare of Gods judgements caused him to wishe to be joyened to the housholde of Abraham: thus the wicked haue their consciences wounded when thei consider Gods judgements.

^{10 f} The infinite multitude, as the dust of the earth.

^{14 /} Or, into the field of them that spied: to wit, lest the enemy shulde approche.

^{19 h} Gods enemies are compelled to confesse that his gouernement is juste, constant, & without change or repentance.

^{19 !} God is not like man.

^{21 i} They triumph as victorious Kings ouer their enemies.

^{23 k} Considering what God shal worke this time for the deliuerance of his people, all the worlde shal wonder.

^{27 l} Thus the wicked imagine of God, that, that which he wil not grante in one place, he wil do it in another.