The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.”
Balak again sent princes, more, and more honourable than they.
Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?”