Numbers 24:12

12 Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

Numbers 24:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 24:12

And Balaam said unto Balak
In order to mitigate his wrath, and bring him into a better temper:

spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me:
those that came to him a second time; for to the first he said nothing of what is after related, but to the last he did much the same as he had afterwards said to Balak himself: saying,

Numbers 24:12 In-Context

10 Then {Balak became angry with} Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed [them] these three times.

11 {Flee} to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you."

12 Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

13 'If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh} to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak'?

14 And now, look, I [am about] to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people {in the following days}."