Numbers 23:27
And 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
26And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?
28And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
Cross References
Numbers 23:13Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.
Job 23:13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever is soul hath desired, that hath he done.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.
Isaiah 46:10Who shew from the beginning the things that shall be at last, and from ancient times the things that as yet are not done, saying: My counsel shall stand, and all my will shall be done:
Romans 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.
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 →