Mínshùjì 22:12

12 Shén duì Bālán shuō , nǐ bùkĕ tóng tāmen qù , yĕ bùkĕ zhòuzǔ nà mín , yīnwei nà mín shì mĕng fú de .

Mínshùjì 22:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 22:12

And God said unto Balaam, thou shalt not go with them
Which is a denial of the first thing Balak requested, "come now, therefore" ( Numbers 22:6 )

thou shall not curse the people;
which was the principal thing desired, and in order to which he was solicited to go with the messengers; but this is absolutely forbidden:

for they are blessed;
by the Lord himself, with an irrevocable blessing, and therefore it would be vain and fruitless, as well as dangerous for him to attempt to curse them, ( Genesis 12:3 ) this may have a special respect to the blessing of Jacob by Isaac, which could not be reversed by the solicitations of Esau, and which descended to Jacob's posterity, the Israelites, ( Genesis 27:33 ) .

Mínshùjì 22:12 In-Context

10 Bālán huídá shuō , shì Móyē wáng xī bō de érzi bā lè dǎfa rén dào wǒ zhèlǐ lái , shuō ,

11 Cóng Āijí chūlai de mín zhē mǎn dì miàn , nǐ lái wéi wǒ zhòuzǔ tāmen , huòzhĕ wǒ néng yǔ tāmen zhēng zhàn , bǎ tāmen gǎn chū qù .

12 Shén duì Bālán shuō , nǐ bùkĕ tóng tāmen qù , yĕ bùkĕ zhòuzǔ nà mín , yīnwei nà mín shì mĕng fú de .

13 Bālán zǎochen qǐlai , duì bā lè de shǐ chén shuō , nǐmen huí bĕn dì qù ba , yīnwei Yēhéhuá bùróng wǒ hé nǐmen tóng qù .

14 Móyē de shǐ chén jiù qǐlai , huí bā lè nàli qù , shuō , Bālán bú kĕn hé wǒmen tóng lái .