Números 22:22

La Biblia de las Americas

Pero Dios se airó porque él iba, y el ángel del Señor se puso en el camino como un adversario contra él. Y Balaam iba montado sobre su asna, y sus dos sirvientes con él.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y el furor de Dios se encendió porque él iba; y el ángel de Jehová se puso en el camino por adversario suyo. Iba, pues, él montado sobre su asna, y con él dos mozos suyos.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y el furor de Dios se encendió porque él iba; y el Ángel de Jehová se puso en el camino por adversario suyo. Iba, pues, él montado sobre su asna, y con él dos mozos suyos.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y el furor de Dios se encendió porque él iba; y el ángel del SEÑOR se puso en el camino por adversario suyo; y él iba cabalgando sobre su asna, y con él dos criados suyos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God's: 2 Kings 10:20, Hosea 1:4

and the angel: Numbers 22:35, Genesis 48:15, Genesis 48:16, Exodus 3:2-6, Hosea 12:4, Hosea 12:5

stood: Numbers 22:32, Exodus 4:24, Lamentations 2:4

Reciprocal: Judges 19:3 - his servant 2 Peter 2:16 - the dumb

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God's anger was kindled because he went,.... Though he had given him leave to go; but then it was upon condition that the princes called him to go with them, whereas he went without their call, and did not wait for it; and besides, he did not acquaint them, as he did not the messengers before, of what God had said, that he should not curse Israel, nor say anything contrary to this his will, which, had he told them, they would not have taken him with them; moreover, he went with an intention, with a good will to curse Israel, which must be displeasing to God, who knew his heart; so the Targum of Jonathan,

"and the anger of the Lord was strong, because he went to curse them;''

likewise, though he had a permission to go, it was in an angry manner, and was not agreeable to the Lord he should go, and therefore should not have gone notwithstanding; or, at least, he might expect some marks of the divine displeasure; so Jarchi observes, he saw that the thing was evil in the eyes of the Lord, or displeasing to him, and yet he desired it; just as the people of Israel, when the Lord bid them go up and possess the land, which case Aben Ezra instances in; they desired persons might be sent before hand to spy out the land, which, though permitted, they smarted for it: for not whatsoever God permits is well pleasing to him; besides, the words may be rendered h, "when he went", or, "as he was going"; and so not a reason of the Lord's anger, but expresses when it was kindled or broke forth:

and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him; that this was not a created angel, one of the ministering spirits, but the eternal one, the angel of Jehovah's presence, appears from

Numbers 22:35 that went before the people of Israel in the wilderness, not only to guide but to guard and protect them; and who was an adversary to their adversaries, and at all times stood up for their help and assistance against all those that hated and opposed them: Jarchi calls him an angel of mercy, who would have restrained Balaam from sinning, that he might not sin and perish, and so was rather a friend than an adversary, had he attended to him:

now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him; who, the Targum of Jonathan says, were Jannes and Jambres, the magicians of Egypt, of whom see 2 Timothy 3:8 these only were with him, the princes of Midian on some account or another being separated from him.

h כי הולך "quum iret", Noldius, p. 403.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The angel - i. e., the Angel that led the Israelites through the wilderness (compare Numbers 20:16 and references), and subsequently appeared as the Captain of the Lord’s host to Joshua Joshua 6:13. In desiring to curse Israel, Balaam was fighting against Israel’s Leader. The presence of the Angel in his path was designed to open his eyes, blinded by sin, to the real character of his course of conduct.