Numbers 22:18

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

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And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

In Context

17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”

19Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else the LORD will speak to me.”

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Cross References

Numbers 22:8He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Numbers 23:26But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”

Joshua 24:10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

1 Kings 22:14Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”

Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could 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 →

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