Numbers 23:19
God [is] not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18And he takes up his allegory and says: “Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!
20Behold, I have received [only] to bless; Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it.
Cross References
Numbers 14:35I, YHWH, have spoken; if, nonetheless, I do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against Me—they are consumed in this wilderness, and there they die.”
1 Samuel 3:12In that day I establish to Eli all that I have spoken to his house, beginning and completing;
1 Kings 14:11the dogs eat him who dies of Jeroboam in a city, and birds of the heavens eat him who dies in a field, for YHWH has spoken.
2 Kings 15:12It [is] the word of YHWH that He spoke to Jehu, saying, “Sons of the fourth [generation] sit on the throne of Israel for you”; and it is so.
Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten [His] favors? Has He shut up His mercies in anger? Selah.
Psalms 132:11YHWH has sworn truth to David, || He does not turn back from it: “Of the fruit of your body, || I set on the throne for you.
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 →