Jos_24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Ver. 10. Therefore he blessed you still] Though full sore against his mind, as loath to lose so fair a preferment; till at length he resolved to curse, whatever came of it, and therefore went not, as at other times, to his altar, but "set his face toward the wilderness." {Num_24:1-2} "Howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing," said that good Nehemiah. {Neh_13:2}