Mínshùjì 22:23

23 Lü kànjian Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ zhàn zaì lù shàng , shǒu lǐ yǒu bá chūlai de dāo , jiù cóng lù shàng kuà jìn tiánjiān , Bālán biàn dá lü , yào jiào tā huízhuǎn shàng lù .

Mínshùjì 22:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 22:23

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way,
&c.] Which Balaam did not; his eyes being held from seeing him by the power and providence of God, that he might be reproved and rebuked by his ass, to whom God gave power to see, more than to him, as Jarchi notes, so that he had little reason to boast of his visions and revelations, and that he was the man whose eyes were open: the angel stood in the very pathway on which the ass was carrying Balaam: and his sword drawn in his hand; as threatening to destroy him, and as if he was just about to push at him, and signifying hereby not only that he deserved to die, but what death he should die of, namely, by the sword, as he did, ( Numbers 31:8 ) ( 1 Chronicles 21:16 )

and the ass turned aside out of the way;
out of the common road, to save its master and itself, from a natural principle of self-preservation: and went into the field; adjoining to, and that lay along the road side:

and Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way;
with his staff, as in ( Numbers 22:27 ) to bring her into the common road again.

Mínshùjì 22:23 In-Context

21 Bālán zǎochen qǐlai , beì shàng lü , hé Móyē de shǐ chén yītóng qù le .

22 Shén yīn tā qù jiù fā le nù . Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ zhàn zaì lù shàng dídǎng tā . tā qí zhe lü , yǒu liǎng gè púrén gēnsuí tā .

23 Lü kànjian Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ zhàn zaì lù shàng , shǒu lǐ yǒu bá chūlai de dāo , jiù cóng lù shàng kuà jìn tiánjiān , Bālán biàn dá lü , yào jiào tā huízhuǎn shàng lù .

24 Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ jiù zhàn zaì pútaóyuán de zhǎi lù shàng . zhèbiān yǒu qiáng , nàbiān yĕ yǒu qiáng .

25 Lü kànjian Yēhéhuá de shǐzhĕ , jiù tiē kào qiáng , jiàng Bālán de jiǎo jǐ shāng le . Bālán yòu dá lü .