Numbers 22:13

The next morning, Balaam got up and told Balak’s men, “Go back home. But go by yourselves, because Yahweh is not allowing me to go with you.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

In Context

12God replied to Balaam, “Do not go with them! I have blessed those people, so you must not curse them!”

14So the men from Moab returned to King Balak and they reported to him, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

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Cross References

Numbers 22:14So the men from Moab returned to King Balak and they reported to him, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:2-15

Balak Sends for Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of… Read the whole commentary →

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