Numbers 24:12

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

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  • Num 22:18 : 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.
  • Num 22:38 : 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.”

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  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    88%

    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.”

  • Num 24:13-15
    3 verses
    86%

    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’?

    14 And 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.”

    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;

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    86%

    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?”

    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.”

  • Num 22:12-20
    9 verses
    85%

    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.”

    15 Balaam Accompanies the Moabite Princes Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

    16 And 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.

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

    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.”

  • Num 22:34-41
    8 verses
    84%

    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.

    37 Balak 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?”

    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.

    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.

  • Num 22:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

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

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

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

  • Num 23:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    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?”

    18 Balaam Prophesies Again Balaam uttered his oracle, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

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

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

  • Num 23:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 Balaam Blesses Israel Balaam said to Balak,“Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

    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.

  • Num 24:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    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!

    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.”

  • 3 Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

  • 5 And 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.

  • 7 Then 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.’

  • 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.”

  • 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.