Numbers 23:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Balak said to Balaam, Come, please, I will bring you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.

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  • Num 23:13 : 13 And 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 23:19-20 : 19 God 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? 20 Behold, I have received a commandment to bless, and he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But he is of one mind, and who can change him? And whatever his soul desires, that he does.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against the LORD.
  • Isa 14:27 : 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
  • Isa 46:10-11 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man who executes my counsel from a far country: yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
  • Mal 3:6 : 6 For I am the LORD, I do not change; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

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  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    90%

    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 23:28-30
    3 verses
    85%

    28And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward Jeshimon.

    29And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.

    30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

  • Num 23:1-5
    5 verses
    84%

    1And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.

    2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    3And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me, I will tell you. And he went to a high place.

    4And God met Balaam; and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    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?

  • Num 22:5-20
    16 verses
    84%

    5He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Look, a people has come out of Egypt; see, they cover the face of the earth, and they dwell opposite me.

    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.

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

    8And he said to them, Stay here this night, and I will bring word again to you, as the LORD shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

    9And God came to Balaam, and said, Who are these men with you?

    10And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,

    11Look, a people has come out of Egypt, which covers the face of the earth; come now, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

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

    13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go back to your land: for the LORD refuses to let me go with you.

    14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak and said, Balaam refuses 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 says Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming to me:

    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.

    19Now therefore, I pray you, stay here this night also, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.

    20And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, and go with them; but only the word which I shall say to you, that shall you do.

  • Num 23:15-18
    4 verses
    84%

    15And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.

    16And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak and say thus.

    17And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken?

    18And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor:

  • Num 23:25-26
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    83%

    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 22:41
    82%

    41And it happened on the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that from there he might see the furthest part of the people.

  • Num 22:35-39
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    82%

    35And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

    36And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab, which is on the border of Arnon, which is at the extreme boundary.

    37And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?

    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.

    39And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjathhuzoth.

  • Num 24:12-13
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    80%

    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?

  • Josh 24:9
    80%

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

  • Num 24:10
    78%

    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.

  • Num 24:1
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 23:4
    77%

    4Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you came out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.