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11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? aI took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!”  
12 So he answered and said, a“Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”  

Balaam’s Second Prophecy

13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the outer part of them, and shall not see them all; curse them for me from there.”
14 So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, aand built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.  
15 And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I1 meet the Lord over there.”  
16 Then the Lord met Balaam, and aput a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”  
17 So he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
18 Then he took up his oracle and said:
a“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, son of Zippor! 
19 “Goda is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He bsaid, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? 
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless;
aHe has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. 
21 “Hea has not observed iniquity in Jacob,
Nor has He seen1 wickedness in Israel.
The Lord his God is with him,
bAnd the shout of a King is among them. 
22 aGod brings them out of Egypt;
He has bstrength like a wild ox. 
23 “For there is no1 sorcery against Jacob,
Nor any1 divination against Israel.
It now must be said of Jacob
And of Israel, ‘Oh, awhat God has done!’ 
24 Look, a people rises alike a lioness,
And lifts itself up like a lion;
bIt shall not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”  
25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”
26 So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, a‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do’?”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Numbers 23:13

Thou shalt see but the utmost part of them - Balak thought that the sight of such an immense camp had intimidated Balaam, and this he might gather from what he said in the tenth verse: Who can count the dust of Jacob, etc.; he thought therefore that he might get Balaam to curse them in detached parties, till the whole camp should be devoted to destruction by successive execrations.


 
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