Numbers 22:38
He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
39So they went on together, and came into a city, that was in the uttermost borders of his kingdom.
Cross References
Numbers 22:18Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less.
Numbers 23:26And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?
1 Kings 22:14But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.
2 Chronicles 18:13And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.
Psalms 76:10When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
Isaiah 44:25That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that, make their knowledge foolish.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:37-41
Meeting between Balak and Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast. 37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? 38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I… Read the whole commentary →