²⁰ And God came to^▵ Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men^◦ come to call thee, rise·​·up, go with^◦ them; but surely the word which I speak to^▵ thee, it shalt thou do.

¹⁶ And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.