The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
So Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land because the Lord refuses to let me to go with you.”
Again Balak sent officials, more numerous and more honorable than they.
Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not earnestly send to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Indeed am I not able to honor you?”