Numbers 23:16
Adonai met Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], and put a word in his mouth, and said, “ Teshuvah ·Completely return· to Balak, and say this.”
One Unity Resource Bible
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
15He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there.”
Cross References
Numbers 23:5Adonai put a word in Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people]’s mouth, and said, “ Teshuvah ·Completely return· to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Deuteronomy 18:18I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. + 18:18. Quoted in Acts 3:22 I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall enjoin + 18:18. Quoted in John 12:49 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 →