Balaam’s Treachery cost him his life. Although Balaam told the messengers from Balak that he would only prophesy what God told him to say, he had another way to curry favor with Balak. In Deuteronomy 24:12. And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me saying, 13. ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD*, to do good or bad of my own mind, but what the LORD* says, that will I speak?’ 14. And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I shall advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”