Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.

Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.

1 Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesies the happiness of Israel
10 Balak, in anger, dismisses him
15 He prophesies of the Star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations

saw

Numbers 22:13 And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come with you.

Numbers 23:20 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

Numbers 31:16 Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

1 Samuel 24:20 And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy hand:

1 Samuel 26:2,25 And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. . . .

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

at other times

Numbers 23:3,15 And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee. . . .

to seek for enchantments.

Numbers 23:23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.