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With what shall I come before the Lord? - The people, thus accused, burst in, as people often do, with professions that they would …

Wherewith shall I come ...? — This has been taken by some commentators as Balak’s question to Balaam, who gives his reply…

The people will give God everything but what he wants. They begin, you see, by saying that they will bring burnt offerings; they are ready to do th…

The Prophet now inquires, as in the name of the people, what was necessary to be done. He takes these two principles as granted: first, that the pe…

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord These are not the words of the people of Israel God had a controversy with, and no…

These verses seem to contain the substance of Balak's consultation with Balaam on how to obtain the favor of Israel's God. A deep conviction of gui…
Albert Barnes
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