Numbers 22:32

Ha mal'ak Yahweh [The Angel of He sustains breathing] said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

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In The King James Version

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

In Context

31Then Adonai opened the eyes of Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], and he saw ha mal'ak Yahweh [the Angel of He sustains breathing] standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

33The donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.”

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Cross References

Exodus 3:2Ha mal'ak Yahweh [The Angel of He sustains breathing] appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. + 3:2. Quoted in Acts 7:30 He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Numbers 22:22God’s anger burned because he went; and ha mal'ak Yahweh [the Angel of He sustains breathing] placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Numbers 22:35Ha mal'ak Yahweh [The Angel of He sustains breathing] said to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] went with the princes of Balak.

Deuteronomy 25:4+ 25:4. Deut 25:4 (#8.545): T. Not to muzzle an animal while threshing grain / R. Not to muzzle an ox while plowing R. Note: Not to steal by withholding the rightful or appropriate compensation You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. + 25:4. Quoted in 1 Cor 9:9; 1 Tim 5:18

Psalms 145:9ט Adonai is good to all. 2 His tender rachamim ·merciful loves· is over all his works. 1

Proverbs 14:2He who walks in his uprightness fears Adonai, 2 but he who is perverse in his ways despises him. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:23-36

God's Displeasure against Balaam; Remonstrance of Balaam's Ass; The Angel Appears to Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. 23 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →

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