Numbers 23:5

5 And the LORD ¹put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

Numbers 23:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 23:5

And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth
&c.] Not grace into his heart, nor the fear of God within him, but suggested to him what to say; impressed it strongly on him, that he could not forget it, and with such power and weight, that he was obliged to deliver it:

and said, return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak;
that is, unto him, and what is expressed in ( Numbers 22:7-10 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 23:5 In-Context

3 And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height,

4 and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, "I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

6 And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.

7 And Balaam took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!'

Cross References 1

1. ver. 12, 16; Numbers 22:38; Deuteronomy 18:18; Isaiah 51:16; Isaiah 59:21; Jeremiah 1:9

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Numbers 23:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 23:5 In-Context

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