Numbers 23:26

And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.

27And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:38He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?

Numbers 23:12He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Numbers 24:12Balaam made answer to Balac: Did I not say to thy messengers, whom thou sentest to me:

2 Chronicles 18:13And Micheas answered him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever my God shall say to me, that will I speak.

Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to 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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