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Selected Verse: Numbers 23:20 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Nu 23:20	King James	Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
I have received commandment to bless - literally, "I have received to bless." The reason of his blessing lay in the augury which he acknowledged, and in the divine overruling impulse which he could not resist, not in any "commandment" in words.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

I have received commandment to bless - literally, "I have received to bless." The reason of his blessing lay in the augury which he acknowledged, and in the divine overruling impulse which he could not resist, not in any "commandment" in words.

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