Numbers 22:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

Wherefore

Withstand thee

Numbers 22:22

Thy way

2 Peter 2:14

Before me

Bible References

Wherefore

And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works.

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”

Withstand thee

But God was angry because he was going, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him.

Thy way

because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity

Than he who is crooked though he be rich.

“My people, remember now
What Balak king of Moab counseled
And what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
And from Shittim to Gilgal,
So that you might know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

Before me

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you shall you do.”

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.

He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

He who walks blamelessly will be delivered,
But he who is

crooked will fall all at once.