But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
Parallel Translations
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But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
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But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
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But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: 'Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?'
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Passages linked to Numbers 23:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Numbers 22:18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
- Numbers 22:38 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
- 2 Chronicles 18:13 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”
- Acts 4:19-20 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves, for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
- Numbers 23:12-13 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?” Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
- Numbers 24:12-13 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
- 1 Kings 22:14 Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,…
Num 23:26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
Ver. 26. That I must do.] Though with no goodwill. Devils and wicked men do God’s will; but oft full sore against their own.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, told not…
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, told not I thee,.... He appeals to him for his honesty and faithfulness, for honest and faithful he would be thought to be, both to God and man; that when he first met him, he plainly told him what he must expect: from him:
saying, all that the Lord speaketh, that I must do; which was very true, he was obliged to do as he had bid him, and speak what he had said unto him, though it was sore against his will; he would fain both have spoken and done otherwise, if he might have been permitted.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do--a…
All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do--a remarkable confession that he was divinely constrained to give utterances different from what it was his purpose and inclination to do.
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