اعداد 22:20

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20 و خدا در شب‌ نزد بلعام‌ آمده‌، وی‌ را گفت‌: « اگر این‌ مردمان‌ برای‌ طلبیدن‌ تو بیایند برخاسته‌، همراه‌ایشان‌ برو، اما كلامی‌ را كه‌ من‌ به‌ تو گویم‌ به‌ همان‌ عمل‌ نما.»

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Numbers 22:9

If the men: 1 Samuel 8:5-9, 1 Samuel 12:12-19, Psalms 81:12, Ezekiel 14:2-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

but yet: Numbers 22:35, Numbers 23:12, Numbers 23:26, Numbers 24:13, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 78:30, Psalms 78:31, Isaiah 37:29, Hosea 13:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:24 - dream Numbers 22:8 - General Numbers 22:12 - Thou shalt Numbers 22:32 - before me Numbers 23:4 - God 1 Samuel 8:7 - Hearken Job 4:13 - thoughts Jeremiah 1:7 - for thou shalt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord came unto Balaam at night,.... As before,

Numbers 22:9 it may be in a dream; the Targum of Jonathan is as there,

"a word came from the Lord:''

and said unto him, if the men come and call thee, rise up, and go with them; this was said, as some think, not seriously, but sarcastically, or rather in an angry manner, bidding him go, if he would; so giving him up to his own heart's lusts, or, at most; only permitting him to go with them, but not to curse Israel; and this permission to go seems to be on this condition, if the princes first called him, and were urgent on him to go with them: this was a trial of Balaam, whether he would be eager and forward to go, or patiently wait until he should be called; or the words may be rendered, "seeing", or because g,

they are come to call thee: but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shall thou do; whether he would or not, he should be forced to do it, as Jarchi; and therefore go not with any intention to curse Israel, which shall never be done; wherefore to go would be vain and fruitless, since he would never be able to answer the design of Balak: but still Balaam hoped, it not being so fully and clearly expressed as before, that he should not curse Israel; that God would say something else unto him, though he had no reason at all for it, but all the reverse; so blinded was he with a greedy desire of riches and honour.

g אם "quandoquidem", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Noldius, p. 88. & Ainsworth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 22:20. If the men come - go with them — This is a confirmation of what was observed on the twelfth verse; though we find his going was marked with the Divine displeasure, because he wished, for the sake of the honours and rewards, to fulfil as far as possible the will of the king of Moab. Mr. Shuckford observes that the pronoun הוא hu is sometimes used to denote a person's doing a thing out of his own head, without regard to the directions of another. Thus in the case of Balaam, when God had allowed him to go with the messengers of Balak, if they came in the morning to call him; because he was more hasty than he ought to have been, and went to them instead of staying till they should come to him, it was said of him, not כי הלך ki halach, that he went, but כי הולך הוא ki holech hu, i. e., he went of his own head - without being called; and in this, Mr. Shuckford supposes, his iniquity chiefly lay. - Connex., vol. iii., p. 115. How many are restrained from sinning, merely through the fear of God! They would gladly do the evil, but it is forbidden on awful penalties; they wish the thing were not prohibited for they have a strong desire to do it.