Numbers 22:20

That night God appeared to Balaam again and said to him, “These men have come to request that you go back with them, so you may go with them, but do only what I tell you to do!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

In Context

19But stay here one more night, like the other messengers did, and I will find out if Yahweh has anything more to say to me.”

21So the next morning, Balaam put a saddle on his donkey and he departed with two of his servants along with the men from Moab.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:5Then Yahweh gave Balaam a message to give to King Balak. Then he said, “Go back and tell him what I told you.”

Numbers 23:16So Balaam did that, and Yahweh appeared to Balaam again and gave him another message. Then he said, “Go back to Balak and tell him that message.”

Numbers 24:13‘Even if Balak would give me a palace filled with silver and gold, I would not disobey Yahweh. I cannot do anything bad or anything that is good that he does not approve of.’ And I told you that I could say only what Yahweh says to me.

1 Samuel 12:12“But now, when king Nahash of Ammon came with his army to attack you, you were afraid. So, you came to me, and said, ‘We want a king to rule us,’ even though Yahweh was already your king!

Psalms 78:30But before they had eaten all that they wanted, and while they were still eating it,

Isaiah 37:29So, because you have raged against me and because I have heard you speak very proudly/arrogantly, it will be as though I will put a hook in your nose and I will put an iron ◄bit/metal bar► in your mouth in order that I can lead you where I want you to go, and I will force you to return to your own country, on the same road on which you came here, without conquering Jerusalem.”’

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:16-22

Balak's Second Message to Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: 17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver… Read the whole commentary →

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