Numbers 23:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:20 : 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
  • Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 23:27
    85%

    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."

  • Num 22:39-41
    3 verses
    84%

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

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

    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 23:13-18
    6 verses
    82%

    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."

    14He 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.

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

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

    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?"

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

  • Num 21:20
    80%

    20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

  • Num 23:1-7
    7 verses
    79%

    1Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

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

    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.

    4God 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."

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

    6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

    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.

  • Num 23:29-30
    2 verses
    79%

    29Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

    30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

  • Num 22:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    37Balak 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?"

  • Num 22:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 31:16
    77%

    16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

  • Josh 24:9
    77%

    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;

  • Num 22:2
    76%

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

  • Num 22:7
    76%

    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 22:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

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

    11'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.'"

  • Num 23:11
    76%

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

  • Num 24:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

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

  • Num 23:25
    74%

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

  • Num 24:25
    74%

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

  • Josh 13:20
    74%

    20Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,

  • Deut 3:29
    73%

    29So we stayed in the valley over against Beth Peor.

  • Deut 23:4
    73%

    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 24:12
    72%

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

  • Num 24:10
    72%

    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 22:13-16
    4 verses
    72%

    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."

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

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

  • Num 24:15
    72%

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

  • Num 22:20
    72%

    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."