Numbers 22:23 (BSB)

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 22:22-35: We have here an account of the opposition God gave to Balaam in his journey towards Moab; probably the princes had gone before, or gone some other way, and Balaam had pointed out where he would meet them, or where they should stay for him, for we read nothing of them in this part of our narrative, only that Balaam, like a person of some...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 22:23: And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place,.... More narrow than the other, at a further distance: where was no way to turn, either to the right hand or to the left; it was so strait and close a place that the angel filled the whole breadth of it, that there was no passing him; so that there was...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 22:21-41: THE JOURNEY. (Num. 22:21-41) Balaam . . . saddled his ass--probably one of the white sprightly animals which persons of rank were accustomed to ride. The saddle, as usually in the East, would be nothing more than a pad or his outer cloak.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 22:22-23: Num 22:22-23 Balaam’s Speaking Ass. - Num 22:22. “And the anger of God burned, that he was going (הוּא הולך): and the angel of Jehovah placed himself in the way, as an adversary to him.” From the use of the participle הולך instead of the imperfect, with which it is not interchangeable, it is evident, on the one hand, that the anger of God was...