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True Education
And not inferior in beauty is Balaam’s unwilling prophecy of
blessing to Israel
Numbers 23:7-23
;
24:4-6
;
24:16-19
.
The melody of praise is the atmosphere of heaven, and when
heaven comes in touch with the earth, there is music and song—
“thanksgiving and the voice of melody.”
Isaiah 51:3
.
Above the newly created earth, as it lay fair and unblemished
under the smile of God, “the morning stars sang together, and all
the sons of God shouted for joy.”
Job 38:7
. So human hearts, in
sympathy with heaven, have responded to God’s goodness in notes
of praise. Many of the events of human history have been linked
with song.
The earliest song recorded in the Bible from human lips was that
glorious outburst of thanksgiving by the hosts of Israel at the Red
Sea:
“I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously!
The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
The Lord is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation;
He is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.”
Exodus 15:1, 2.
See also Exodus 15:6-11,
18-21.
Great have been the blessings received by human beings in
response to songs of praise. The few words recounting an experience
of the wilderness journey of Israel have a lesson worthy of our
thought: “They went to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said
to Moses, ‘Gather the people together, and I will give them water.’”
Numbers 21:16
. Then Israel sang this song:
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“Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it.
The well, the leaders sank,
Dug by the nation’s nobles,
By the lawgiver, with their staves.”
Numbers 21:17, 18.