Numeri 22:36-41

36 Quando Balak udì che Balaam arrivava, gli andò incontro a Jr-Moab che è sul confine segnato dall’Arnon, alla frontiera estrema.

37 E Balak disse a Balaam: "Non t’ho io mandato con insistenza a chiamare? perché non sei venuto da me? non son io proprio i grado di farti onore?"

38 E Balaam rispose a Balak: "Ecco, son venuto da te; ma posso io adesso dire qualsiasi cosa? la parola che Dio mi metterà in bocca, quella dirò".

39 Balaam andò con Balak, e giunsero a Kiriath-Hutsoth.

40 E Balak sacrificò buoi e pecore e mandò parte delle carni a Balaam e ai principi ch’eran con lui.

41 La mattina Balak prese Balaam e lo fece salire a Bamoth Baal, donde Balaam vide l’estremità del campo d’Israele.

Numeri 22:36-41 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 22

The children of Israel being come into the plains of Moab, put the king of Moab into a panic, who expressed his fears to the elders of Midian, Nu 22:1-4 and sent for Balaam the soothsayer to curse the people of Israel, but he, upon consulting the Lord refused to come, Nu 22:5-14, on which the king of Moab sent to him a second time, making large promises of preferment to him, and who at this time got leave from the Lord to go with the messengers, Nu 22:15-21, but was met with in the way by an angel of the Lord, who would have slain him had it not been for his ass, of which a very wonderful revelation is given, Nu 22:22-35, and the chapter is closed with the interview between Balak king of Moab and Balaam, and an account of what passed between them, and what was done by them, Nu 22:36-41.