Numbers 23:26

But Balaam replied, “Didn't I explain to you that I have to do whatever the Lord tells me?”

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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

25Then Balak said to Balaam, “If you can't give them any curses then at least don't give them any blessings!”

27“Please come with me and I will take you somewhere else,” Balak said. “Maybe God would let you curse them for me from there.”

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Cross References

Numbers 22:38“Look, I'm here with you now, aren't I?” Balaam replied. “But do you think I can just say anything? I can only speak the words that God gives me to say.”

Numbers 23:12But Balaam replied, “Don't you think I should say precisely what the Lord tells me?”

Numbers 24:12But Balaam said to Balak, “Didn't I already explain to the messengers you sent

2 Chronicles 18:13But Micaiah replied, “As the Lord lives, I can only say what my God tells me.”

Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We have 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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