Numbers 22:29
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.”
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.
- Prov 12:16 : 16 A fool’s annoyance is known at once, but the prudent conceals dishonor.
- Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.
- Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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- Num 22:25-284 verses86%
25And 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.
26Then 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.
27When 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.
28Then 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?”
- Num 22:30-356 verses85%
30The 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.”
31Then 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.
32The 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.
33The 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.”
34Balaam 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.”
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 22:17-237 verses84%
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.”
21So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
22God 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.
23And 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.
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16yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).
- Num 23:11-133 verses74%
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.”
- Num 24:10-123 verses73%
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,
- Num 23:25-273 verses71%
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.”
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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.”
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27He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.
- Num 22:38-392 verses70%
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 23:16-183 verses70%
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?”
18Balaam Prophesies Again Balaam uttered his oracle, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:
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5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
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10I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.
- Num 22:10-134 verses70%
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.”
12But God said to Balaam,“You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
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.”
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3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
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22The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.
- Num 23:7-82 verses69%
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?
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16Samson then said,“With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!”
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13He then told his sons,“Saddle the donkey for me.” When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
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15Balaam 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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3Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
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5But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the LORD your God loves you.
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41Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. From there he saw the extent of the nation.