Numbers 22:18
Balaam responded: “Even if Balak were to give to me his own house, filled with silver and gold, I still would not be able to change the word of the Lord my God, neither to say more, nor to say less.
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In Context
19I beg you to remain for this night also, so that I may know what the Lord will answer me again.”
Cross References
Numbers 22:8he responded, “Remain for this night, and I will answer with whatever the Lord will say to me.” And while they stayed with Balaam, God came and said to him,
Numbers 23:26And he said, “Have I not told you that whatever God would command of me, I would do?”
Joshua 24:10And I was not willing to listen to him, but on the contrary, I blessed you through him, and I freed you from his hand.
1 Kings 22:14But Micaiah said to him, “As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord will have said to me, this shall I speak.”
Job 3:15either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,
Acts 8:20“Let your money be with you in perdition, for you have supposed that a gift of God might be possessed by money.
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 →