36. When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went to meet him at the town of Ir, which is on the northern border of Moab.
37. Balak asked, “Why didn't you come when I invited you the first time? Did you think I wasn't going to pay you?”
38. “I'm here now,” Balaam answered. “But I will say only what God tells me to say.”
39. They left and went to the town of Kiriath-Huzoth,