Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
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Gill's Exposition
And God's anger was kindled because he went,.... Though he had given him leave to go; but then it was upon condition that the princes called him to go with them, whereas he went without their call,…
Barnes' Notes
Ye also - i. e., as the other envoys before you. Had Balaam possessed a sincere spirit of obedience, he would have found in the first instructions Num 22:12 a final decision upon the matter. His…
We have here a second embassy sent to Balaam, to fetch him over to curse Israel. It were well for us if we were as earnest and constant in prosecuting a good work, notwithstanding disappointments, as…
Cambridge Bible
Balaam had learnt (Num 22:22) that Israel was a people on whom God's blessing rested. It was therefore impossible for him to go and curse them. But when Balak's more splendid retinue of princes…
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