Numbers 23:26
But Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you that I must say all that Yahweh tells me to say?”
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25Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them or bless them at all.”
Cross References
Numbers 22:38Then Balaam replied to Balak, “See, I have come to you. Do I now have any power to say anything? I can only say the words that God puts into my mouth.”
Numbers 23:12Balaam answered and said, “Should I not be careful to say only what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
Numbers 24:12Then Balaam replied to Balak, “I said to the messengers that you sent to me,
2 Chronicles 18:13Micaiah replied, “As Yahweh lives, it is what God says that I will say.”
Acts 5:29But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
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 →