Numbers 22:28

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 2:16 : 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
  • Exod 4:11 : 11 Yahweh said to him, "Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, Yahweh?
  • Luke 1:37 : 37 For everything spoken by God is possible."
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

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  • Num 22:17-27
    11 verses
    88%

    17 for 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.'"

    18 Balaam 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.

    19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

    20 God 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."

    21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

    22 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

    23 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.

    24 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

    25 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.

    26 The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

    27 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

  • Num 22:29-35
    7 verses
    87%

    29 Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."

    30 The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No."

    31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

    32 The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:

    33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive."

    34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."

    35 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • 2 Pet 2:16
    78%

    16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

  • Num 23:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Num 23:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

    17 He 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?"

    18 He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

  • Num 23:2-5
    4 verses
    74%

    2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

    3 Balaam 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.

    4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

    5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

  • Num 24:3
    73%

    3 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 24:10
    73%

    10 Balak'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
    72%

    38 Balaam 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."

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

  • Num 24:15
    72%

    15 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 22:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

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

  • Num 24:12
    71%

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

  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    71%

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

    26 But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

    27 Balak 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."

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    70%

    27 He spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." They saddled it.

  • Num 22:41
    69%

    41 It 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 23:7
    69%

    7 He 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.

  • Gen 42:27
    68%

    27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

  • Num 22:12
    68%

    12 God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

  • Num 22:6
    68%

    6 Please 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."

  • Josh 24:10
    68%

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

  • Num 22:2
    68%

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