Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• 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!
• Num 23:3 : 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 23:15 : 15 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder.
• Num 23:20 : 20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
• Num 22:13 : 13 Balaam 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 23:28 : 28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
• Num 31:16 : 16 Behold, 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.
• 1 Sam 24:20 : 20 Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
• 1 Sam 26:2 : 2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
• 1 Sam 26:25 : 25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.