Verse 19
19. God is not a man, that he should lie The aim of Balak’s second sacrifice was to produce such a change in Jehovah as may be effected in the purposes of men. The king is informed that God is unchangeable, and so wholly unlike fickle men. The principles governing his acts toward man are unalterably fixed independent of what man will freely perform. Having announced that he will reward the righteous and punish the wicked, to reverse this decree would be to overturn his own throne of moral government.
That he should repent “With regard to his own counsels God repents of nothing; but this does not prevent the repentance of God, understood as an anthropopathic expression, denoting the pain experienced by the love of God on account of the destruction of its creatures. Genesis 6:6, note; Exodus 32:14.” Keil. Samuel refused Saul’s request in similar words when urged to revoke his rejection by Jehovah. 1 Samuel 15:29.
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