Numbers 22:17 (BSB)

for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:17

• 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 22:17: And the Lord came unto Balaam at night,.... As before, Num 22:9 it may be in a dream; the Targum of Jonathan is as there,"a word came from the Lord:" and said unto him, if the men come and call thee, rise up, and go with them; this was said, as some think, not seriously, but sarcastically, or rather in an angry manner, bidding him...
• 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...