Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”

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In The King James Version

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

In Context

25Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

27Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

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Cross References

Numbers 22:38Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.”

Numbers 23:12He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?”

Numbers 24:12Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

2 Chronicles 18:13Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, I will say what my God says.”

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 →

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