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