Verse 12

But God said to Balaam, 'Do not go with them. You must not curse the people, for they are blessed.'

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  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 and said, 'By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies. 18 And through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'
  • Num 22:19-20 : 19 Now please stay here tonight as well, so that I may find out what else the LORD may say to me. 20 That night God came to Balaam and said, 'Since these men have come to summon you, go with them. But do only what I tell you.'
  • Num 23:3 : 3 Balaam said to Balak, 'Stand beside your burnt offering while I go. Perhaps the LORD will meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.' Then he went to a barren height.
  • Num 23:13-15 : 13 Then Balak said to him, 'Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will see only a part of them, not all of them. From there, curse them for me.' 14 So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah. There he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15 Balaam said to Balak, 'Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.'
  • Num 23:19-20 : 19 'God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?' 20 'Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.'
  • Num 23:23 : 23 'There is no divination against Jacob, no sorcery against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel: "See what God has done!"'
  • Deut 23:5 : 5 This is because they did not meet you with bread and water on your way out of Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor of Aram Naharaim to curse you.
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 Blessed are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will come cringing to you, and you will tread on their high places.
  • Job 33:15-17 : 15 In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds, 16 then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction. 17 To turn a man from wrongdoing and to conceal pride from him.
  • Ps 144:15 : 15 Blessed are the people whose situation is such; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.
  • Ps 146:5 : 5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God.
  • Mic 6:5 : 5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.
  • Matt 27:19 : 19 While he was seated on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him, saying, 'Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered greatly today in a dream because of Him.'
  • Rom 4:6-7 : 6 Just as David also speaks of the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 for God’s gifts and His calling are irrevocable.
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,