Numbers 24:13

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

Cross References

1 Kings 13:8

And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place;

1 Kings 22:14

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

Numbers 16:28

And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.

Numbers 22:18

But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

Numbers 22:20

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”

Numbers 22:8

And he said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as the Lord speaks to me”; so the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.