Numbers 22:14

So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

In Context

13In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go with you.

15So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:13In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go with you.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:2-15

Balak Sends for Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of… Read the whole commentary →

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