Numbers 22:9
New International Version
God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

New Living Translation
That night God came to Balaam and asked him, “Who are these men visiting you?”

English Standard Version
And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Berean Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

King James Bible
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

New King James Version
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

New American Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

NASB 1995
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

NASB 1977
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Legacy Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Amplified Bible
God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Christian Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

American Standard Version
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And God came upon Balaam and said to him: “Who are these men with you?”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with thee?

Contemporary English Version
During the night, God asked Balaam, "Who are these people at your house?"

Douay-Rheims Bible
What mean these men that are with thee?

English Revised Version
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"

Good News Translation
God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these people that are staying with you?"

International Standard Version
God visited Balaam and asked him, "Who are these men with you?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
And God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?'

Literal Standard Version
And God comes to Balaam and says, “Who [are] these men with you?”

Majority Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

New American Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said: Who are these men with you?

NET Bible
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

New Revised Standard Version
God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

New Heart English Bible
And God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

Webster's Bible Translation
And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

World English Bible
God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Young's Literal Translation
And God cometh in unto Balaam, and saith, 'Who are these men with thee?'

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Context
Balak Summons Balaam
8“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 9Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?” 10And Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:…

Cross References
Genesis 20:3
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."

Numbers 22:8
"Spend the night here," Balaam replied, "and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Numbers 22:10
And Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:


Treasury of Scripture

And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?

God

Numbers 23:20
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

Genesis 20:3
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

what men

Genesis 3:9-11
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? …

Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Genesis 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

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(9) What men are these with thee?--This inquiry, like that addressed to Elijah, "What doest thou here?" (1Kings 19:9), or that to Hezekiah, "What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?" and "What have they seen in thine house?" (Isaiah 39:3-4) was calculated to arouse the slumbering conscience of Balaam, and to open his eyes to a perception of his sin and of his danger.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then God
אֱלֹהִ֖ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

came
וַיָּבֹ֥א (way·yā·ḇō)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Balaam
בִּלְעָ֑ם (bil·‘ām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1109: Balaam -- a prophet

and asked,
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Who
מִ֛י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

are these
הָאֵ֖לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

men
הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים (hā·’ă·nā·šîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

with you?”
עִמָּֽךְ׃ (‘im·māḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with


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