Numbers 23:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 22:12 : 12 God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
  • Num 23:20 : 20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
  • Num 23:23 : 23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.

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  • Num 23:7
    85%

    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 me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.

  • Num 22:5-7
    3 verses
    82%

    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 come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.

    6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure 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.

    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 23:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

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

    12He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?

    13Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence 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 23:25-27
    3 verses
    81%

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

    26But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?

    27Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.

  • Num 22:10-13
    4 verses
    80%

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

    11Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.

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

    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.

  • Num 22:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

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

    17for 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.

    18Balaam 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 23:16-20
    5 verses
    77%

    16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

    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:

    19God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither 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?

    20Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

  • Num 24:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you.

    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.

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

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

    13If 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; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?

  • Deut 23:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    5Nevertheless 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 24:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

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

  • Num 23:9
    74%

    9For 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.

  • Neh 13:2
    74%

    2because 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.

  • Num 22:37-38
    2 verses
    74%

    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?

    38Balaam 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.

  • Job 31:30
    73%

    30(Yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

  • 2 Sam 16:10
    73%

    10The king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why have you done so?

  • Ps 109:28
    72%

    28They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, But your servant shall rejoice.

  • Lev 24:15
    72%

    15You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

  • Ps 37:22
    72%

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

  • Exod 22:28
    71%

    28"You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

  • Isa 37:23
    71%

    23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 48:10
    71%

    10Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

  • Num 24:1
    71%

    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.

  • Judg 11:25
    71%

    25Now 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 23:5
    71%

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

  • Gen 12:3
    71%

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