The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets in Nu23-05:07, Nu23-17:18, Nu24-02:03 Both verses/verselets discuss the orders by God to Bilam. The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that: Only in vision #2 of the 3 Bilam visions do we find Balak asking What did God say and Bilam responding Please get up to hear the word of God. Because this phrase only occurs once I would suggest that Balak made fun of Bilam: What did God say - after all, all that matters is what God says since you can only repeat him. Bilam sensitive to the sneerings retaliated by forcing Balak to get up to hear the word of God.

Verse	Text of Verse	Rashi comment
Nu23-05:07	And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. And he returned to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. And he took up his discourse, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.	Only in vision #2 of the 3 Bilam visions do we find Balak asking What did God say and Bilam responding Please get up to hear the word of God. Because this phrase only occurs once I would suggest that Balak made fun of Bilam: What did God say - after all, all that matters is what God says since you can only repeat him. Bilam sensitive to the sneerings retaliated by forcing Balak get up to hear the word of God.
Nu23-17:18	And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord spoken? And he took up his discourse, and said, Rise up, Balak,and hear; listen to me, you son of Zippor;
Nu24-02:03	And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. And he took up his discourse, and said, The speech of Balaam, the son of Beor; the speech of a man whose eyes are open;