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Numbers 24:13

Numbers 24:13
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold,.... Which are the very words he said to the princes of Moab, Num 22:18,

I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Numbers 24:10-14

We have here the conclusion of this vain attempt to curse Israel, and the total abandonment of it. 1. Balak made the worst of it. He broke out into a rage against Balaam (Num 24:10), expressed both in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Numbers 24:10-14

Balak, in anger, bade Balaam flee back to his land. Balaam replied, as before, that he was bound to utter the message which Jehovah gave him, and, instead of departing at once, uttered four further…

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