Numbers 22:14
 Numbers 22:14 
New International Version (©2011)
So the Moabite officials returned to Balak and said, "Balaam refused to come with us."

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the Moabite officials returned to King Balak and reported, "Balaam refused to come with us."

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The leaders of Moab arose and went to Balak and said, "Balaam refused to come with us."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The officials of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and reported, "Balaam refused to come with us."

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Balak's officials got up, returned to Balak and reported, "Balaam refused to come with us."

NET Bible (©2006)
So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said, "Balaam refused to come with us."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the Moabite princes went back to Balak and said, "Balaam refused to come with us."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the leaders of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.

American King James Version
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.

American Standard Version
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes returning, said to Balac: Balaam would not come with us.

Darby Bible Translation
And the princes of Moab rose up; and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam has refused to come with us.

English Revised Version
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

World English Bible
The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

Young's Literal Translation
and the princes of Moab rise, and come in unto Balak, and say, 'Balaam is refusing to come with us.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-14 The king of Moab formed a plan to get the people of Israel cursed; that is, to set God against them, who had hitherto fought for them. He had a false notion, that if he could get some prophet to pray for evil upon them, and to pronounce a blessing upon himself and his forces, that then he should be able to deal with them. None had so great a reputation as Balaam; and Balak will employ him, though he send a great way for him. It is not known whether the Lord had ever spoken to Balaam, or by him, before this; though it is probable he had, and it is certain he did afterwards. Yet we have abundant proof that he lived and died a wicked man, an enemy to God and his people. And the curse shall not come upon us if there is not a cause, even though men utter it. To prevail with Balaam, they took the wages of unrighteousness, but God laid restraint upon Balaam, forbidding him to curse Israel. Balaam was no stranger to Israel's cause; so that he ought to have answered the messengers at once, that he would never curse a people whom God had blessed; but he takes a night's time to consider what he should do. When we parley with temptations, we are in great danger of being overcome. Balaam was not faithful in returning God's answer to the messengers. Those are a fair mark for Satan's temptation, who lessen Divine restraints; as if to go against God's law were only to go without his leave. The messengers also are not faithful in returning Balaam's answer to Balak. Thus many are abused by the flatteries of those about them, and are prevented from seeing their own faults and follies.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the princes of Moab rose up,.... And the princes of Midian also, immediately, without entering into a parley with him, to persuade him to go with them; perceiving by his answer that it would be to no purpose, and that he was determined to do as the Lord directed him:

and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us; as Balaam told them less than what God had said to him, so they related less to Balak than what Balaam had said to them; saying nothing of the Lord's refusing to let him go with them, but represent it as a piece of pride and obstinacy in Balaam, and which Balak was left to understand; and it seems as if he did understand it as a piece of policy in Balaam, to get a larger offer of money or honour, or both, from him, and which the following account seems to confirm.


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Balak Summons Balaam
13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you. 14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us. 15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they. …

Numbers 22:13 The next morning Balaam got up and said to Balak's officials, "Go back to your own country, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you."
Numbers 22:15 Then Balak sent other officials, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.