Numbers 23:18
He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
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- Judg 3:20 : 20 Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you." He arose out of his seat.
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- Num 23:11-177 verses84%
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."
14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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?"
- Num 23:5-84 verses83%
5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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.
8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
- Num 22:7-104 verses80%
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],
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3 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
- Num 24:12-154 verses78%
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;
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2 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
- Num 22:16-216 verses78%
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.
- Num 23:1-33 verses78%
1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
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.
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9 Then 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;
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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 23:25-284 verses77%
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."
28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
- Num 22:35-395 verses75%
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.
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.
- Num 22:4-52 verses74%
4 Moab 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.
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.
- Num 22:13-142 verses74%
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."
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25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
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25 Now 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?
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5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
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30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.