Balaam, the pagan soothsayer, who prostituted his supernatural gift.

 

Since Balak believed that there was no military way to withstand the Israelites, he sought to oppose them through pagan divination, sending for a diviner with an…

That God spoke to Balaam is not to be denied, but Balaam did not yet realize that the God of Israel was unlike the supposed deities that he usually schemed against. 

 

way of Balaam son of Bezer. See Nu 22–24. Balaam was bent on cursing Israel, though God had forbidden it. He wanted the money Balak offered him. Similarly, these false teachers apparently…