Numbers 24:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 22:17 : 17 For 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.
  • Num 22:37 : 37 And 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?
  • Matt 19:28-30 : 28 And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.
  • Acts 8:20 : 20 But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Indeed, I count all things as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ,
  • Heb 11:24-26 : 24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for dishonest gain, but with a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 22:37-38
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Num 22:10-20
    11 verses
    78%

    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 24:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    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?

    14And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore, and I will advise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    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 24:10
    76%

    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 23:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    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?

    27And 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.

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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:

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

  • Num 23:5
    74%

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

  • Num 23:15-18
    4 verses
    73%

    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:

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    73%

    30Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

  • Num 22:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34And Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.

    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.

  • Deut 23:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    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 23:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    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 23:3
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 25:7
    71%

    7For it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

  • Num 24:1
    71%

    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.

  • Num 22:41
    71%

    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.

  • Judg 11:25
    71%

    25And now, are you any 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 violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    70%

    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.