Numbers 23:16
and YHWH comes to Balaam, and sets a word in his mouth, and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
In Context
15And he says to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt-offering, and I meet [Him] there”;
Cross References
Numbers 23:5and YHWH puts a word in the mouth of Balaam and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.”
Deuteronomy 18:18I raise up for them a Prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers, and I have given My words in His mouth, and He has spoken to them all that which I command Him;
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 →