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Numeri 22:12

Listen to Numeri 22:12
12 E Iddio disse a Balaam: Non andar con loro; non maledire quel popolo; conciossiachè egli sia benedetto.

Numeri 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 ) .

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Numeri 22:12 In-Context

10 E Balaam disse a Dio: Balac, figliuolo di Sippor, re di Moab, ha mandato a dirmi:
11 Ecco un popolo, ch’è uscito di Egitto, e ha coperta la faccia della terra; or vieni, e maledicimelo; forse potrò combattere con lui, e lo scaccerò.
12 E Iddio disse a Balaam: Non andar con loro; non maledire quel popolo; conciossiachè egli sia benedetto.
13 E la mattina seguente, Balaam si levò, e disse a que’ principi di Balac: Andatevene al vostro paese; perciocchè il Signore ha rifiutato di concedermi ch’io vada con voi.
14 E i principi di Moab si levarono, e vennero a Balac, e gli dissero: Balaam ha ricusato di venir con noi.
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