Numbers 24:11

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back from honor.

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  • Num 22:17 : 17 for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
  • Num 22:37 : 37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?
  • Matt 19:28-30 : 28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And every one that hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life. 30 But many shall be last [that are] first; and first [that are] last.
  • Acts 8:20 : 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,
  • Heb 11:24-26 : 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to [the will of] God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 22:37-38
    2 verses
    79%

    37And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

    38And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  • Num 22:10-20
    11 verses
    78%

    10And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying] ,

    11Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.

    12And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.

    13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Jehovah refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

    14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

    15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

    16And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

    17for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

    18And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.

    20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

  • Num 24:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers that thou sentest unto me, saying,

    13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

    14And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, [and] I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

    12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

    13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

  • Num 24:10
    76%

    10And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

    26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?

    27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

    10but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

  • Num 23:5
    74%

    5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

  • Num 24:25
    74%

    25And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

  • Num 22:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

    7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

    8And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Jehovah shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

  • Num 23:15-18
    4 verses
    73%

    15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet [Jehovah] yonder.

    16And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

    17And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?

    18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    73%

    30Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

  • Num 22:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34And Balaam said unto the angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

    35And the angel of Jehovah said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • Deut 23:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

    5Nevertheless Jehovah thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but Jehovah thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because Jehovah thy God loved thee.

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.

    8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

  • Num 23:3
    72%

    3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

  • Prov 25:7
    71%

    7For better is it that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, Than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom thine eyes have seen.

  • Num 24:1
    71%

    1And when Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • Num 22:41
    71%

    41And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people.

  • Judg 11:25
    71%

    25And now art thou anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

  • Isa 22:18
    70%

    18He will surely wind thee round and round, [and toss thee] like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    70%

    13As saith the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.