Numbers 23:26
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
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25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
Cross References
Numbers 22:38And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto you: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
Numbers 23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?
Numbers 24:12And Balaam said unto Balak, Spoke I not also to your messengers which you sent unto me, saying,
2 Chronicles 18:13And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, even what my God says, that will I speak.
Acts 5:29Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to 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 →