Numbers 23:19
God isn't a human being who would lie. He's not a mere mortal who changes his mind. Does he say he's going to do something but doesn't? Does he make promises he doesn't carry out?
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20Look, I have been ordered to give a blessing. God has blessed, and I can't change that.
Cross References
Numbers 14:35I, the Lord, have spoken! Just see if I won't do this to all these wicked Israelites who have worked together to oppose me! They will end their lives in the desert—they will die there.’”
1 Samuel 3:12That's when I will carry out against Eli and his family everything I have said, from beginning to end.
1 Kings 14:11Those of Jeroboam's family who die in the town will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the countryside will be eaten by birds. For the Lord has spoken.
2 Kings 15:12In this way what the Lord told Jehu came true: “Your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be kind? Has he angrily slammed the door shut on his compassion? Selah.
Psalms 132:11The Lord made a solemn promise to David, one he will never cancel—“I will put one of your descendants on your throne.
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 →