Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I send you an urgent summons? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really unable to reward you?”
Do not lift your horn up high. Do not speak with outstretched neck.”
When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to greet him at the Moabite city on the border of the Arnon, the frontier of the territory.
“Look, I have come to you now!” Balaam said to Balak. “Can I just say anything? I must speak only the message which God puts into my mouth.”
Now, go home! I said I would reward you, but see, Adonai has kept you from reward!”
And the devil said to Him, “I’ll give to You all this authority along with its glory, because it has been handed over to me and I can give it to anyone I wish.
How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that comes from God alone?