Numbers 22:27 (BSB)

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and beat her with his staff.

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:27

• 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 22:27: And the ass said unto Balaam,.... Made a reply to him, as if it understood what he said, and had the faculty of reasoning and discoursing, as well as of speaking, which is very amazing: am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?
• 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 22:26-27: Num 22:26-27 The angel moved still farther, and stationed himself in front of him, in so narrow a pass, that there was no room to move either to the right or to the left. As the ass could neither turn aside nor go past this time, she threw herself. down. Balaam was still more enraged at this, and smote her with the stick (בּמקּל, which he carried; see Gen 38:18).