Numbers 24:10

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Num 23:11 : 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."
  • Ezek 21:14 : 14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.
  • Ezek 21:17 : 17 I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
  • Ezek 22:13 : 13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
  • Neh 13:2 : 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.
  • Job 27:23 : 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
  • Deut 23:4-5 : 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. 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.
  • Josh 24:9-9 : 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; 10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
  • Num 22:6 : 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 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.'"

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  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    87%

    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."

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    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;

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

  • Num 23:25-30
    6 verses
    81%

    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.

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

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

  • Num 22:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 24:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    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 24:9
    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."

  • Num 22:10-13
    4 verses
    77%

    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."

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 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?

  • Num 23:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    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?"

  • Neh 13:2
    75%

    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 23:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    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 22:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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 24:1
    75%

    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.

  • Num 23:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Num 23:5
    74%

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

  • Num 24:25
    74%

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

  • Num 22:27-29
    3 verses
    73%

    27 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.

    28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"

    29 Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."

  • Num 22:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    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."

  • Num 22:32
    73%

    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:

  • Num 24:3
    73%

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

  • Num 22:2
    73%

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

  • Num 22:41
    73%

    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 22:22
    72%

    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.