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Numbers 22:13
So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Balaam rises the next morning and addresses Balak’s princes, delivering his response immediately after receiving God’s command in the preceding verse.
The words — The Hebrew לְכ֖וּ (le.Khu) commands the messengers to "go," while וַ/יָּ֤קָם (va/i.Ya.kom) marks Balaam’s decisive action to "arise" upon waking.
The thread — This refusal echoes in Numbers 22:14 when the princes report the denial to Balak, and Deuteronomy 23:5 later recalls how the LORD refused to listen to Balaam.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to recognize that divine prohibition overrides royal commission, demanding obedience to God’s explicit boundary rather than human pressure.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
Cross-references
- Numbers 22:14 And the princes of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
- Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.