Even a donkey would know better…
By Noah Largent. Filed in Daily Bible Reading |
Perhaps Balaam should have asked his donkey for advice before he made his plan to ruin Israel. Funny how he was unwilling to curse them a few chapters ago (even though it would have made him rich), now he hatches a plan to intermarry them with the rest of Moabites to destroy them!
Numbers 31:16 is a great example of what I call a “hidden verse.” One that is very easy to miss because it is given after or in the middle of where the major action takes place. BUT without the information revealed in it, we only get part of the story. You may be reading through chapter 31 and all sorts of questions may be running through your head about the killing that just took place. The explanation as to “why” the event took place is not readily available until you read Numbers 31:16…
Its sort of like “now you know the REST of the story…”