Verse 7

And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, saying Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 22:5-6 : 5 He sent messengers therefore vnto Balaam the sonne of Beor to Pethor, which is by the riuer of the lande of the chyldren of his folke, to call him, saying: Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and beholde they couer the face of the earth, & dwell ouer against me. 6 Come nowe therfore I pray thee, and curse me this people, for they are to mightie for me, so peraduenture I myght be able to smyte them, & to driue them out of the lande: For I wote that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and whom thou cursest is cursed.
  • Num 23:18 : 18 And he toke vp his parable, and aunswered: Rise vp Balac, and heare, and hearke vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor.
  • Num 24:3 : 3 And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, and the man whose eyes is open hath sayde:
  • Deut 23:4 : 4 Because they met you not with bread and water in the way, when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hyred against thee Balaam the sonne of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
  • Job 27:1 : 1 And Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying,
  • Job 29:1 : 1 So Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying:
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past.
  • Num 24:15 : 15 And he toke vp his parable and sayd: Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, the man whose eye is open, hath sayde:
  • Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day shal this parable be vsed, and a mourning shalbe made ouer you on this maner: We be vtterly desolate, the portion of my people is translated: how wyll he parte vnto vs the lande that he hath taken from vs?
  • Num 24:23 : 23 And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Alas, who shall lyue when God doth this?
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Shall not all these take vp a parable against him? and a taunting prouerbe against him, and say: Wo he that increaseth that which is not his? how long? and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay?
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 Another parable spake he vnto them: The kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto leuen, which a woman taketh & hydeth in three peckes of meale, tyll all be leuened.
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 That it myght be fulfylled, which was spoken by the prophete, that sayth: I wyll open my mouth in parables, I wyll speake foorth thynges which haue ben kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.
  • Mark 12:12 : 12 They went about also to take hym, and feared the people: For they knewe, that he had spoken the parable agaynst them. And they left hym, and went their way.
  • Num 24:21 : 21 And he loked on the Kenites, and toke vp his parable, and sayde: Strong is thy dwelling place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rocke.
  • Num 22:11 : 11 Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and couereth the face of the earth: Come nowe therefore, and curse them for my sake, if so peraduenture I may be able to ouercome them in battayle, and to dryue them out.
  • Num 22:17 : 17 For I wyll greatly promote thee vnto great honour, and wyll do whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me: come I pray thee, curse this people for my sake.
  • Gen 10:22 : 22 The chyldren of Sem: Elam, and Assur, Arpharad, and Lud, and Aram.
  • Gen 28:2 : 2 Arise, and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 And that Iacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone to Mesopotamia:
  • Prov 26:2 : 2 As the byrde and the swalowe take their flight and flee here and there: so the curse that is geuen in vayne, shall not light vpon a man.
  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 Thou sonne of man, put foorth a parable, & speake a prouerbe vnto the house of Israel,
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then sayde I, Ah Lorde God, they say of me, Doth not he speake parables?
  • 1 Sam 17:10 : 10 And the Philistine sayde: I defie the hoast of Israel this day, geue me a man, that we may fight together.
  • 1 Sam 17:25-26 : 25 And euery man of Israel said: Sawe ye not this man that commeth vp? euen to reuile Israel is he come: And to him that killeth him, will the king geue great ritches, and will geue him his daughter thereto, yea and make his fathers house free in Israel. 26 And Dauid spake to ye men that stoode by, and sayd: What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh awaye the shame from Israel? And what is this vncircumcised Philistine, that he shoulde reuile the hoast of the liuing God?
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 And so thy seruaunte slue both the lion, and the beare: And trulie this vncircumcised Philistine shalbe as one of them, seing he hath rayled on the hoast of the liuyng God.
  • 1 Sam 17:45 : 45 Then sayde Dauid to the Philistine: Thou commest to me with a sword, a speare, & a shielde: But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hoastes, the God of the hoast of Israel, whom thou hast rayled vpon.
  • 2 Sam 21:21 : 21 And when he defyed Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Simea the brother of Dauid slue him.
  • 2 Sam 23:9 : 9 After him was Eliazar the sonne of Dodo the sonne of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with Dauid, which defyed the Philistines that were there gathered together to battaile, when the men of Israel were gone vp.