12And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
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Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)The children of Israel have at length finished their wanderings in the wilderness, out of which they went up (Num. 21:18), and are now encamped in the plains of Moab near Jordan, where they continued till they passed through Jordan under Joshua, after the death of Moses. Now we have here, I. The fright which the Moabites were in upon the approach of Israel, Num. 22:2-4. They needed not to fear any…
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