Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: 'Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.'

27And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.'

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Cross References

Numbers 22:38And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.'

Numbers 23:12And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'

Numbers 24:12And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:

2 Chronicles 18:13And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what my God saith, that will I speak.'

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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