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 ass, and she said unto Balaam, "What have I done unto thee, that thou smitest me thus three times?"

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.

Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.

The LORD is loving unto every man; and his mercy is over all his works.

which giveth fodder unto the cattle, and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.

And should not I have compassion on Nineveh that great city, wherein there is a multitude of people, even above a hundred thousand that know not their righthand from the left, besides much cattle?"

Withstand thee

But God was angry because he went. And the angel of the LORD stood in the way against him. And he rode upon his ass and two servants with him.

Thy way

because they met you not with bread and water in the way when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, the interpreter of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

A poor man leading a godly life, is better than the rich that goeth in froward ways.

Remember, O my people, what Balak the king of Moab had imagined against thee, and what answer that Balaam the son of Beor gave him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the loving-kindness of the LORD.

"O full of all subtlety and deceitfulness, and child of the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness: thou ceasest not to pervert the straight ways of the Lord.

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,

Before me

And God came to Balaam by night and said unto him, "If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do."

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of a bush. And he perceived that the bush burned with fire, and consumed not.

Whoso feareth the LORD, walketh in the right path: and regardeth not him that abhorreth the ways of the LORD.

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.