Numbers 22:35

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Num 22:20-21 : 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.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Isa 37:26-29 : 26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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  • Num 22:12-23
    12 verses
    87%

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

    13 Balaam 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."

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

    15 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

    16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

    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.

  • Num 23:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15 He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

    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?"

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

  • Num 22:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    7 The 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.

    8 He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

    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 24:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

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

    13 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?

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

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

  • Num 23:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Num 22:36-41
    6 verses
    81%

    36 When 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.

    37 Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

    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.

    40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

    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.

  • 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."

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    80%

    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?"

    13 Balak 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 23:25-27
    3 verses
    79%

    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."

  • 25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

  • 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.

  • Num 22:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    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:

  • 5 He 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.

  • 1 When 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.

  • 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.

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