Numbers 22:20
And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, go with them, but only the word which I speak to thee, that shall thou do.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the rulers of Moab.
Cross References
Numbers 23:5And LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shall speak.
Numbers 23:16And LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall thou speak.
Numbers 24:13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind. What LORD speaks, that I will speak?
1 Samuel 12:12And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, when LORD your God was your king.
Psalms 78:30They were not estranged from that which they desired. Their food was yet in their mouths
Isaiah 37:29Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou came.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:16-22
Balak's Second Message to Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver… Read the whole commentary →