Numbers 22:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 26:11 : 11 O LORD, you are ready to act, but they don’t even notice. They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, yes, fire will consume your enemies.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

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  • Num 22:18-25
    8 verses
    87%

    18 Balaam 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.

    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.”

    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.

    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.

  • Num 22:27-36
    10 verses
    80%

    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 23:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15 And Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.”

    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?”

  • Num 24:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Num 23:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

    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.

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

  • Num 22:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    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.”

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

  • Num 22:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38 Balaam 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.”

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

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

  • 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.

  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    70%

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

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

    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.”

  • 16 Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.

  • 27 “Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

  • Num 24:11-13
    3 verses
    69%

    11 So 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.”

    12 Balaam 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’?

  • Num 23:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

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

    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.”

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

  • 3 At this point the angelic messenger who spoke to me went out, and another messenger came to meet him

  • Num 22:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7 So 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.

    8 He 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.

  • 22 When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”

  • 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.