Verse 1

Balaam said to Balak, 'Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.'

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  • Num 23:29 : 29 Balaam said to Balak, 'Build for me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.'
  • Num 29:32 : 32 On the seventh day, seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen year-old lambs, all without defect.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Then Samuel said, 'Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.'
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  • 1 Chr 15:26 : 26 And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
  • 2 Chr 29:21 : 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah, and he instructed the descendants of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9 I will not take a bull from your house, nor goats from your pens.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed animals; I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. 12 When you come to appear before Me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of My courts? 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity combined with solemn assembly. 14 Your New Moons and appointed festivals My soul hates. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.
  • Ezek 45:23 : 23 During the seven days of the festival, he is to prepare each day seven bulls and seven rams, without blemish, as burnt offerings to the Lord, along with a male goat as a sin offering.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 Make an altar of earth for Me, and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
  • Exod 27:1-8 : 1 You shall make the altar out of acacia wood; it shall be five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits. 2 You shall make horns for it on its four corners; the horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze. 3 You shall make pots to remove its ashes, along with its shovels, basins, forks, and firepans. All its utensils shall be made of bronze. 4 You shall construct a grating of bronze network. On the four corners of the grating, you shall make four bronze rings. 5 You shall set the grating below the ledge of the altar, from beneath, and the net shall extend halfway up the altar. 6 You shall make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7 The poles shall be inserted into the rings, so the poles are on two sides of the altar for carrying it. 8 The altar shall be hollow, made with boards. Just as it was shown to you on the mountain, so it shall be made.