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Numbers 22:20

And God came unto Bil'am at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

In Context

19And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me.

21And Bil'am rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:5And the Lord put a word in Bil'am's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:16And the Lord met Bil'am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 24:13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord, to do good or evil out of my own heart: what the Lord will speak, that must I speak?

1 Samuel 12:12But when ye saw that Nachash the king of the children of 'Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, No; but a king shall reign over us: when the Lord your God is your king.

Psalms 78:30They were not estranged from their longing, yet was their food in their mouth:

Isaiah 37:29Because of thy raging against me, and thy tumult, that is come up into my ears, will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle between thy lips, and I will cause thee to turn back on the way by which thou camest.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:16-22

Balak's Second Message to Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver… Read the whole commentary →

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