Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that LORD speaks, that I must do?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

In Context

25And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

27And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take thee to another place. Perhaps it will please God that thou may curse them for me from there.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:38And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to thee. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Numbers 23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which LORD puts in my mouth?

Numbers 24:12And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also speak to thy messengers that thou sent to me, saying,

2 Chronicles 18:13And Micaiah said, As LORD lives, what my God says, that will I speak.

Acts 5:29And Peter and the apostles having answered, they said, We must obey God rather than men.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:14-30

Balaam Again Blesses Israel. ( b. c. 1452.) 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder. 16 And the Lord met Balaam,… Read the whole commentary →

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