ophet, not Balaam, in ( Numbers 23:22 ) or ( Numbers 24:8 ) but in ( Hosea 11:1 ) when Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt: the meaning of which passage is, either in connection with the last clause of the foregoing chapter thus; in a morning shall the king of Israel be cut off, (ren) (yk) , because Israel is a child, a rebellious and disobedient one, acting