Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
- BSB So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
- NKJV Now therefore, please, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what more the Lord will say to me.”
- NASB Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the Lord will say to me.”
- NLT But stay here one more night, and I will see if the Lord has anything else to say to me.”
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Quick answer
Balaam invites the envoys to stay again while he seeks more from Yahweh. Despite God's clear answer, he hopes for a different word.
Overview
Having already heard God's refusal, Balaam's desire to inquire again betrays his unwillingness to accept it. He treats God's settled will as negotiable, hoping persistence will yield permission. The verse shows the danger of asking God to reconsider what He has plainly forbidden.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Jude 1:11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
- 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
- 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- 1 Tim 6:9–10But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- Num 22:7–8The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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