Numbers 23:12
But Balaam replied, “I can [RHQ] say only what Yahweh tells me to say. I cannot say anything else.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 22:20That 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!”
Numbers 23:3Then Balaam said to Balak, “You stand here close to your burned offerings, and I will go and ask Yahweh if he has something else to tell me. Then I will tell you what he says to me.” Then Balaam went by himself to the top of a hill,
Numbers 23:26But Balaam replied, “I told you that I must do only what Yahweh tells me to do!”
Proverbs 26:25When they say nice things, do not believe them, because in their inner beings are many things that Yahweh hates.
Titus 1:16Even though they claim/say that they know God, by what they do they show that they do not know ◄God/his true teaching►. They do not obey God, and they are unable to do anything that he considers to be good. So God considers them to be absolutely disgusting!
Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:2-13
Balaam Constrained to Bless Israel; The Blessing Pronounced on Israel. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. 4 And God met Balaam: and he… Read the whole commentary →