So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land; for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”
Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than they.
And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”