Numbers 23:3
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.
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- Num 23:15 : 15 And Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.”
- Num 24:1 : 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.
- Gen 8:20 : 20 Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Gen 22:2 : 2 God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”
- Gen 22:7-8 : 7 Isaac said to his father Abraham,“My father?”“What is it, my son?” he replied.“Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said,“but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 8 “God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
- Gen 22:13 : 13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Exod 18:12 : 12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
- Lev 1:1 : 1 ¶ Introduction to the Sacrificial Regulations Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent:
- Num 22:8-9 : 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. 9 And God came to Balaam and said,“Who are these men with you?”
- Num 22:31-35 : 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.
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- Num 23:11-188 verses90%
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.”
14So 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.
15And Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.”
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:
- Num 23:4-74 verses85%
4Then God met Balaam, who said to him,“I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
6So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
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.’
- Num 23:25-306 verses84%
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.”
28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wastelands.
29Then Balaam said to Balak,“Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
30So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- Num 23:1-22 verses83%
1Balaam Blesses Israel Balaam said to Balak,“Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
2So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
- Num 22:34-418 verses82%
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.
36Balaam 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.
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.
40And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
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 22:16-216 verses82%
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.”
21So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
- Num 22:7-104 verses80%
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,
- Num 24:1-33 verses78%
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.
3Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
- Num 24:12-143 verses78%
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’?
14And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.”
- Num 22:12-143 verses78%
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.”
14So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said,“Balaam refused to come with us.”
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25Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.
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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.
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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.