Numbers 23:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
  • Esth 3:8 : 8 Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them.
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
  • Amos 9:9 : 9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
  • Rom 15:8-9 : 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, And sing to your name." 10 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore, "'Come out from among them, And be separate,' says the Lord, 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
  • Eph 2:12-14 : 12 that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Num 24:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult.

    18Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel does valiantly.

  • 15For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • 27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

  • 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • 9Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed.

  • Deut 9:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

    14let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

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

  • 11I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • 17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

  • Amos 9:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

    9"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

  • 19For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

  • 8I will encamp around my house against the army, That none pass through or return; And no oppressor will pass through them any more: For now I have seen with my eyes.

  • Ps 33:12-14
    3 verses
    70%

    12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

    13Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

    14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

  • 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  • 17Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a land that reaches afar.

  • 7They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."

  • 9Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.

  • 17He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

  • 5Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!"

  • 9For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

  • 26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far, And he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

  • 8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the animals of the forest, Like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; Who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, And there is no one to deliver.

  • Hab 3:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

    7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

  • 4Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

  • 2Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

  • 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.

  • 12He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

  • 11Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

  • 19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

  • 9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.

  • 9I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

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

  • 3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen.

  • 23He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this?

  • 27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

  • 24Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

  • 7In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

  • 9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • 10Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

  • 21Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.