Numbers 22:20 (BSB)

That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:20

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 22:20: 20. And God came to Balaam at, night. Although God is far from being deceitful, still hypocrites with their quibbles deserve that He should delude their craft. If we more closely consider the desire of Balaam, it was that God should belie Himself. For, if he was persuaded that He was truthful, what else was there to be hoped except that he should ratify His reply ten times over?
• 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 22:20: And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way,.... Which Balaam did not; his eyes being held from seeing him by the power and providence of God, that he might be reproved and rebuked by his ass, to whom God gave power to see, more than to him, as Jarchi notes, so that he had little reason to boast of his...
• 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...