Numbers 22:18
Balaam answered and said to Balak's men, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh, my God, and do less or more than what he tells me.
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Numbers 22:8Balaam said to them, “Stay here tonight. I will bring you what Yahweh says to me.” So the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam that night.
Numbers 23:26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you that I must say all that Yahweh tells me to say?”
Joshua 24:10But I did not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I rescued you out of his hand.
1 Kings 22:14Micaiah replied, “As Yahweh lives, it is what Yahweh says to me that I will say.”
Job 3:15Or I would have been lying with princes who once had gold, 1 who had filled their houses with silver. 1
Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish along with you, because you thought to obtain the gift of God with money.
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 →