Numbers 23:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, I have received a commandment to bless, and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

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  • Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;
  • Num 22:12 : 12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they are blessed.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
  • Num 22:18 : 18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yes, before the day was, I am He; and there is none who can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?
  • John 10:27-29 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
  • Rom 8:38-39 : 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Num 22:38 : 38 And Balaam said to Balak, Look, I have come to you: do I have any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 23:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7And he took up his parable and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

    9For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him; behold, the people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Num 23:19
    75%

    19God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them abundantly.

    12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?

    13And Balak said to him, Come, please, with me to another place from where you can see them; you shall see only the utmost part of them and shall not see them all, and curse them for me from there.

  • Num 22:12
    74%

    12And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they are blessed.

  • Num 23:21
    73%

    21He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

  • Num 23:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

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

    26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, All that the LORD speaks, I must do?

  • Num 22:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17For I will promote you to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me: come therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me.

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

  • Deut 11:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

    27A blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:

  • Heb 6:14
    71%

    14Saying, 'Surely, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.'

  • Gen 12:3
    71%

    3And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.

  • Num 24:9-13
    5 verses
    71%

    9He crouched, he lay down like a lion, and like a great lion; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

    10And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

    11Therefore now flee to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, lo, the LORD has kept you back from honor.

    12And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

    13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?

  • Num 22:6
    71%

    6Come now therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.

  • Deut 23:5
    70%

    5Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.

  • Num 23:23
    70%

    23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel; at this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

  • Josh 24:10
    70%

    10But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

  • Deut 28:8
    69%

    8The LORD shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouses, and in all that you set your hand unto; and He shall bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Gen 48:20
    69%

    20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  • Num 6:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,

    24The LORD bless you, and keep you:

  • Ps 37:22
    69%

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Num 22:38
    69%

    38And Balaam said to Balak, Look, I have come to you: do I have any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    68%

    17And confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Neh 13:2
    68%

    2because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

  • Deut 33:1
    68%

    1And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

  • 2 Chr 6:4
    68%

    4And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has with his hands fulfilled what he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying,

  • Gen 18:18
    68%

    18Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  • Gen 31:29
    68%

    29It is in my power to do you harm: but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Beware that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

  • 1 Kgs 8:56
    68%

    56Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

  • Lev 27:33
    68%

    33He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

  • Gen 26:3
    67%

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

  • Exod 34:10
    67%

    10And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you."

  • Num 24:1
    67%

    1And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • Gen 24:50
    67%

    50Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you either bad or good.

  • Heb 11:20
    67%

    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

  • Gen 27:29
    67%

    29Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons bow down to you: cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be he who blesses you.

  • Mal 2:2
    67%

    2If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.

  • Gen 22:17
    67%

    17That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;