...Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what the Lord saith, that...

...honour thce, and will give thec whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse tnis people. 18 Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, td speak either more or less. 19 I pray you to stay* here this night...

...was the prophet rebuked by the incredulous Moabitish chief; and thus also he answered, — if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go aside from" — " Knave, slave, and in one word — astrologer," said the angry lord, stamping in agony...

...Moab came to him with the tempting offers of their master, he said " If Balak would give me hishouse full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more ;" but observe how he tampered with the temptation ; God had distinctly desired him...

...said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but what the LORD so nli, that...

...said unto Balak, Spake I not also lolhy messengers, which thou si-litest unto me, »aying, 13 If Balak would giv commandment •of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; tmt what the LORD saiih, that...

...Told I not thee, saying, all that the Lord speaketh, that must I do?" And again (xxiv. 13), " If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot [observe, it is not I will not] go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of...

...of view, he sacrificed empty honour to solid glory, and exclaimed in this heroical style, ' If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.' Moreover, before Balak, in the presence of all his courtiers, and, so to speak, in...

...OF BALAAM. NUMBERS XXII. 18. PAGE And Balaam answered and said unto the servant of Balak; If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more 302 SERMON XXX. ON SELFISHNESS. ROMANS XIV. 7. For none of us liveth to himself 312...

...see Rollin'» Ane. Hist. vol. 1. p. :>l. Preface ; and Ency. Brit. vol. xiii. Pt. 1. Art. Oracle. " would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond " the word of the Lord, to do less or more." To what sufferings and imprisonments did Jeremiah's predictions expose him ! Samuel,...