Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 24:1

1 AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not as at other times, to seek for inchantments ; but he set his face toward the wilderness .

(i. e.) To use enchantments, which he is said to have done, either because when he consulted and sacrificed to God. he did also use enchantments and consult with the Devil, that if one would not, the other might help him; or, because he consulted God in a magical and superstitious way, by using such postures or instruments or forms of words as inchanters used.

Where Israel lay encamped, either with intent to curse Israel without Gods leave: or rather, expecting what God of his own accord would suggest to him concerning this matter.

Marginal references: chap. 23. 3▪ 1[illegible: 1+ letters].; Heb. to the meeting of inchantments.