Joshua 24:10
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New International Version (©2011)
But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

New Living Translation (©2007)
but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak.

English Standard Version (©2001)
but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I delivered you from his hand."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But I wasn't willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his control.

NET Bible (©2006)
I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But I refused to listen to Balaam. All he could do was bless you. So I saved you from his power.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

American King James Version
But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

American Standard Version
but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by him, and I delivered you out of his hand.

Darby Bible Translation
but I would not hearken unto Balaam, and he blessed you expressly, and I delivered you out of his hand.

English Revised Version
but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

World English Bible
but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

Young's Literal Translation
and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he doth greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:1-14 We must never think our work for God done, till our life is done. If he lengthen out our days beyond what we expected, like those of Joshua, it is because he has some further service for us to do. He who aims at the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, will glory in bearing the last testimony to his Saviour's goodness, and in telling to all around, the obligations with which the unmerited goodness of God has bound him. The assembly came together in a solemn religious manner. Joshua spake to them in God's name, and as from him. His sermon consists of doctrine and application. The doctrinal part is a history of the great things God had done for his people, and for their fathers before them. The application of this history of God's mercies to them, is an exhortation to fear and serve God, in gratitude for his favour, and that it might be continued.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - But I would not. The Hebrew shows that this is not simply the conditional form of the verb, but that it means I willed not. It was God's "determinate purpose" that Israel should not be accursed. Blessed yon still. Rather, perhaps, blessed you emphatically. And I delivered you out of his hand. Both here and in the narrative in Numbers 22-30, it is implied that Balaam's curse had power if he were permitted by God to pronounce it. Wicked as be was, he was regarded as a prophet of the Lord. There is not the slightest shadow of difference between the view of Balaam presented to us in this short paragraph and that in which he appears to us in the more expanded narrative of Moses.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But I would not hearken unto Balaam,.... Who was very solicitous to get leave of the Lord to curse Israel, which he knew he could not do without; he had a goodwill to it but could not accomplish it:

therefore he blessed you still; went on blessing Israel to the last, when Balak hoped every time he would have cursed them; and Balaam himself was very desirous of doing it; but could not, being overruled by the Lord, and under his restraint; which shows his power over evil spirits, and their agents:

so I delivered you out of his hands: both out of the hand of Balak, who was intimidated from bringing his forces against them, and out of the hand of Balaam, who was not suffered to curse them.

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Joshua Reviews Israel's History
…9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: 10But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. 11And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. …

Deuteronomy 23:5 However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Joshua 24:11 "'Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands.