Numbers 22:20-22

Balak Summons Balaam

20 q And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; x but only do what I tell you." 21 So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

Balaam's Donkey and the Angel

22 But God's anger was kindled because he went, y and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way z as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 22:9
    And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 22:35
    And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you." So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.
    Numbers 23:12
    And he answered and said, "Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?
    Numbers 23:26
    But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the Lord says, that I must do'?
    Numbers 24:13
    If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak'?
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 4:24
    At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.
    1 Chronicles 21:16
    And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 22:32
    And the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.
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