Numbers 22:20
And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
19So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me.
21So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready, went with the chiefs of Moab.
Cross References
Numbers 23:5And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
Numbers 23:16And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
Numbers 24:13Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say?
1 Samuel 12:12And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.
Psalms 78:30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,
Isaiah 37:29Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you 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 →