Numbers 24:13

New English Translation

‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?

Cross References

1 Kings 13:8

But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I could not go with you and eat and drink in this place.

1 Kings 22:14

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

Numbers 16:28

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

Numbers 22:18

Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the Lord my God to do less or more.

Numbers 22:20

God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

Numbers 22:8

He replied to them, “Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the Lord may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.