Numbers 22:16 (BSB)

They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:16

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 22:15-21: We have here a second embassy sent to Balaam, to fetch him over to curse Israel. It were well for us if we were as earnest and constant in prosecuting a good work, notwithstanding disappointments, as Balak was in pursuing this ill design. The enemies of the church are restless and unwearied in their attempts against it; but he that sits in heaven laughs at them. Observe, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 22:16: Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night,.... As the former messengers had; this shows his strong inclination to go along with them, and do what was desired of him, could he be permitted; otherwise he might and ought to have told the messengers at once that Balak needed not to have given himself and them so much trouble, since it was...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 22:16: And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: (h) The wicked seek by all means to further their naughty enterprises, though they know that God is against them.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 22:2-21: Num 22:2-21 The rapid defeat of the two mighty kings of the Amorites filled the Moabites with such alarm at the irresistible might of Israel, that Balak their king, with the princes of Midian, sought to bring the powers of heathen magic to bear against the nation of God; and to this end he sent messengers with presents to Balaam, the celebrated soothsayer, in Mesopotamia...