Numbers 22:25
And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again.
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- Job 5:13-15 : 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night. 15 So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
- Isa 47:12 : 12 Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.
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- Num 22:26-3611 verses92%
26 Then the angel of the LORD went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.
27 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.
28 Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam,“What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
29 And Balaam said to the donkey,“You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”
30 The donkey said to Balaam,“Am I not your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?” And he said,“No.”
31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.
32 The angel of the LORD said to him,“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”
34 Balaam said to the angel of the LORD,“I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back home.”
35 But 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.
36 Balaam Meets Balak When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.
- Num 22:20-245 verses91%
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.”
21 So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
22 God Opposes Balaam Then God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him.
23 And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.
24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.
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16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).
- Num 23:16-172 verses72%
16 Then the LORD met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
17 When 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?”
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24 So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.
- Num 22:39-413 verses71%
39 So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
40 And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
41 Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. From there he saw the extent of the nation.
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10 Then 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!
- Num 23:4-52 verses70%
4 Then God met Balaam, who said to him,“I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5 Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
- Num 24:1-33 verses70%
1 Balaam 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.
2 When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
3 Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
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2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
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23 When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself facedown before David, and bowed to the ground.
- 1 Kgs 13:27-282 verses70%
27 He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.
28 He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.
- Num 23:11-122 verses70%
11 Balaam 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!”
12 Balaam replied,“Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”
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20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.
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25 Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.
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24 She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”
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2 Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.
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27 Balak 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.”
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25 Balaam Relocates Yet Again Balak said to Balaam,“Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
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13 He then told his sons,“Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
- Num 22:12-132 verses68%
12 But God said to Balaam,“You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
13 So 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.”
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5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
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15 Balaam Prophesies a Fourth Time Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
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16 Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the LORD in the matter of Peor– which resulted in the plague among the community of the LORD!
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12 Balaam said to Balak,“Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
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9 Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment on you.