Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 23:7

7 And he took up his parable , and said, Balak the King of Moab hath brought me from Aram , out of the Mountains of the east , saying, Come, curse me Jacob , and come, defie Israel.

To wit. into his mouth, he expressed or spoke.

(i. e.) His oracular and prophetical speech, which he calls a parable, because of the weightiness of the matter, and the majesty and smartness of the expressions, which is usual in parables.

From Aram Naharaim, or Mesopotania, Deut. 23. 4. See Gen. 10. 22.

In which quarter Aram lay. The East was infamous for charmers or soothsayers, Isa. 2. 6.

The posterity of Iacob, i. e. Israel, as it here follows.