Numbers 23:7

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Num 22:5-6 : 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. 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."
  • Num 23:18 : 18 He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
  • Num 24:3 : 3 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
  • Deut 23:4 : 4 because 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.
  • Job 27:1 : 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
  • Job 29:1 : 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
  • Num 24:15 : 15 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
  • Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
  • Num 24:23 : 23 He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?
  • Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
  • Matt 13:33 : 33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."
  • Mark 12:12 : 12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
  • Num 24:21 : 21 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
  • Num 22:11 : 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 22:17 : 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.'"
  • Gen 10:22 : 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
  • Gen 28:2 : 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
  • Gen 28:7 : 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
  • Prov 26:2 : 2 Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.
  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
  • 1 Sam 17:10 : 10 The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that we may fight together!"
  • 1 Sam 17:25-26 : 25 The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel." 26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."
  • 1 Sam 17:45 : 45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
  • 2 Sam 21:21 : 21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.
  • 2 Sam 23:9 : 9 After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

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  • Num 23:8
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    8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Num 23:11-18
    8 verses
    85%

    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?"

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

  • Num 23:27-28
    2 verses
    84%

    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 22:4-7
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    82%

    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.

    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."

    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.

  • Josh 24:9
    82%

    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;

  • Num 22:10-14
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    10 Balaam 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.'"

    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."

  • Num 22:16-18
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    80%

    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.

  • Num 22:41
    79%

    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 22:35-39
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    79%

    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 23:25
    79%

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

  • Num 23:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 23:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 23:4
    77%

    4 because 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 22:2
    77%

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

  • Num 24:3
    77%

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

  • Num 24:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Num 24:15
    77%

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

  • Num 24:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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 24:1
    76%

    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.

  • Judg 11:25
    75%

    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?

  • Num 22:20
    75%

    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."