Numbers 22:20
God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Cross References
Numbers 23:5The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Numbers 23:16The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
Numbers 24:13‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the LORD’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the LORD says’?
1 Samuel 12:12“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.
Psalms 78:30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
Isaiah 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
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 →