Numbers 23:5

5 The LORD put a word in Bil`am'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 ) .

Numbers 23:5 In-Context

3 Bil`am said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.

4 God met Bil`am: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar

5 The LORD put a word in Bil`am's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.

6 He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt- offering, he, and all the princes of Mo'av.

7 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el.