Numbers 23:20

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 22:17 : 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
  • Num 22:12 : 12 God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Num 22:18 : 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.
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
  • John 10:27-29 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
  • Rom 8:38-39 : 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Num 22:38 : 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."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 23:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    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?

    9 For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

  • Num 23:19
    75%

    19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    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 22:12
    74%

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

  • Num 23:21
    73%

    21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

  • Num 23:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    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?'"

  • Num 22:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 11:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

    27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

  • Heb 6:14
    71%

    14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Gen 12:3
    71%

    3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

  • Num 24:9-13
    5 verses
    71%

    9 He 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."

    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.

    11 Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."

    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'?

  • Num 22:6
    71%

    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."

  • Deut 23:5
    70%

    5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

  • Num 23:23
    70%

    23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

  • Josh 24:10
    70%

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

  • Deut 28:8
    69%

    8 Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Gen 48:20
    69%

    20 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  • Num 6:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is how you shall bless the children of Israel.' You shall tell them,

    24 'Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

  • Ps 37:22
    69%

    22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Num 22:38
    69%

    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."

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    68%

    17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Neh 13:2
    68%

    2 because 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.

  • Deut 33:1
    68%

    1 This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

  • 2 Chr 6:4
    68%

    4 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,

  • Gen 18:18
    68%

    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gen 31:29
    68%

    29 It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:56
    68%

    56 "Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

  • Lev 27:33
    68%

    33 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"

  • Gen 26:3
    67%

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Exod 34:10
    67%

    10 He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

  • Num 24:1
    67%

    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.

  • Gen 24:50
    67%

    50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.

  • Heb 11:20
    67%

    20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

  • Gen 27:29
    67%

    29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you."

  • Mal 2:2
    67%

    2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

  • Gen 22:17
    67%

    17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.