Numbers 22:12

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But God said to Balaam,“You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

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  • Gen 12:2 : 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
  • Gen 22:16-18 : 16 and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies. 18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
  • Num 22:19-20 : 19 Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me.” 20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him,“If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”
  • Num 23:3 : 3 Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.
  • Num 23:13-15 : 13 Balak said to him,“Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.” 14 So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15 And Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.”
  • Num 23:19-20 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? 20 Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
  • Num 23:23 : 23 For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘Look at what God has done!’
  • Deut 23:5 : 5 But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the LORD your God loves you.
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.
  • Job 33:15-17 : 15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds. 16 Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings, 17 to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.
  • Ps 144:15 : 15 How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!
  • Ps 146:5 : 5 How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
  • Mic 6:5 : 5 My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, how Balaam son of Beor responded to him. Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal, so you might acknowledge that the LORD has treated you fairly.”
  • Matt 27:19 : 19 As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him:“Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today.”
  • Rom 4:6-7 : 6 So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
  • Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Spiritual Blessings in Christ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    87%

    25Balaam Relocates Yet Again Balak said to Balaam,“Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

    26But Balaam replied to Balak,“Did I not tell you,‘All that the LORD speaks, I must do’?”

    27Balak said to Balaam,“Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”

  • Num 22:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak,“Go to your land, for the LORD has refused to permit me to go with you.”

    14So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said,“Balaam refused to come with us.”

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11Balaam Relocates Then Balak said to Balaam,“What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”

    12Balaam replied,“Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”

    13Balak said to him,“Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

  • Deut 23:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

    5But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the LORD your God loves you.

    6You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

  • Num 22:5-11
    7 verses
    81%

    5And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying,“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.

    6So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

    7So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.

    8He replied to them,“Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the LORD may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

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

    10Balaam said to God,“Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

    11“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out.”

  • Num 22:35
    81%

    35But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam,“Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • Num 22:16-20
    5 verses
    81%

    16And they came to Balaam and said to him,“Thus says Balak son of Zippor:‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.

    17For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”

    18Balaam replied to the servants of Balak,“Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the LORD my God to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me.”

    20God came to Balaam that night, and said to him,“If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

    8How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

  • Neh 13:2
    80%

    2for they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them.(Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

  • Num 24:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1Balaam Prophesies Yet Again When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to seek for omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

    2When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

  • Num 24:9-13
    5 verses
    79%

    9They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’”

    10Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam,“I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless them these three times!

    11So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you, but now the LORD has stood in the way of your honor.”

    12Balaam said to Balak,“Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

    13‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the LORD tells me I must speak’?

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment on you.

    10I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

  • Num 23:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16Then the LORD met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

    17When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him,“What has the LORD spoken?”

  • Num 23:5
    76%

    5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

  • Num 22:41
    76%

    41Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. From there he saw the extent of the nation.

  • Num 22:37-39
    3 verses
    75%

    37Balak said to Balaam,“Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

    38Balaam said to Balak,“Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able to speak just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

    39So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

  • Num 23:3
    74%

    3Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

  • Num 24:25
    74%

    25Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.

  • Gen 12:3
    74%

    3I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”

  • Num 23:20
    74%

    20Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.