* he took.
  18  24:3,15,23  Job 27:1  29:1  Ps 78:2  Eze 17:2  20:49  Mic 2:4 
  Hab 2:6  Mt 13:33,35  Mr 12:12 
 * parable.
   The word {mashal,} which as a verb is to rule, have authority,
   and also to compare, as a noun signifies whatever is expressed
   in parabolic or figurative language.  All these oracular
   speeches of Balaam are in hemistich metre in the original.
   They are highly dignified and sublime; and may be considered
   as immediate poetic productions of the Spirit of God.
   (ch. 24:2.)

 * Aram.
  22:5  Ge 10:22  28:2,7  De 23:4 
 * Come.
  22:6,11,17  Pr 26:2 
 * defy Israel.
  1Sa 17:10,25,26,36,45  2Sa 21:21  23:9