Then Balaam rose and went back to his place. And Balak also went his way.
The office of prophets was both to bless and to prophesy in the name of the Lord. Balaam, as a prophet, per force had blessed Israel; here he foretels future events. I. His preface is much the same as that, Num 24:3, Num 24:4. He personates a true prophet admirably well, God permitting and directing him to do so, because, whatever he was, the prophecy itself was a true prophecy.
Commenting on Numbers 24:15-25
Balaam rose up, and went . . . to his place--Mesopotamia, to which, however, he did not return. (See on Num 31:8). Next: Numbers Chapter 25
Num 24:25 At the close of this announcement Balaam and Balak departed from one another. “Balaam rose up, and went and turned towards his place” (i.e., set out on the way to his house); “and king Balak also went his way.” למקמו ישׁב does not mean, “he returned to his place,” into his home beyond the Euphrates (equivalent to אל־מקמו ישׁב), but merely “he turned...