Numbers 24:11
Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD has kept you back from honour.
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12And Balaam said unto Balak, Spoke I not also to your messengers which you sent unto me, saying,
Cross References
Numbers 22:37And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto you to call you? wherefore came you not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?
Acts 8:20But Peter said unto him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
2 John 1:8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 24:11-15
Balak's Remonstrance. ( b. c. 1452.) 10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. 11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour. 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, 13 If Balak would give me his… Read the whole commentary →