Numbers 22:11

World English Bible (2000)

'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"

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  • Num 22:2-7
    6 verses
    88%

    2Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

    3Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

    4Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

    5He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

    6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

    7The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    7He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Num 23:27-28
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    27Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

    28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

  • Num 22:16-18
    3 verses
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    16They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

    17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

    18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

    11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

    12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

    13Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."

  • Num 22:12-14
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    12God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."

    14The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

  • Num 22:9-10
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    9God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

    10Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],

  • Josh 24:9-10
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    80%

    9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

    10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

  • Deut 23:4
    77%

    4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

  • Num 23:25
    77%

    25Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."

  • Num 22:41
    76%

    41It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

  • Num 24:9-10
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    76%

    9He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."

    10Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

  • Num 22:38-39
    2 verses
    75%

    38Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."

    39Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.

  • Neh 13:2
    75%

    2because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

  • Num 22:36
    75%

    36When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

  • Num 23:17
    75%

    17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

  • Num 22:20
    73%

    20God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

  • Judg 11:25
    73%

    25Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

  • Num 23:3
    73%

    3Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

  • Exod 1:10
    73%

    10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."

  • Deut 9:14
    73%

    14let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they."

  • Num 24:12
    72%

    12Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

  • Num 24:14
    72%

    14Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."

  • Num 24:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

    2Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    72%

    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • Josh 13:22
    72%

    22The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.