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Numbers Chapter 23

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Numbers 23

1And Balaam sayd vnto Balak, Builde me here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes.
Numbers 23:29, Numbers 23:29, Proverbs 15:8, Jude 1:11, 1 Samuel 15:22
2And Balak did as Balaam sayd, and Balak and Balaam offred on euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.
Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30
3Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak, Stande by the burnt offring, and I will goe, if so be that the Lord will come and meete me: and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I will tell thee: so he went forth alone.
Numbers 23:15, Numbers 23:15, Genesis 22:2, Numbers 24:1, Genesis 22:7
4And God met Balaam, and Balaam sayd vnto him, I haue prepared seuen altars, and haue offred vpon euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.
Numbers 23:16, Numbers 23:16, Luke 18:12, Ephesians 2:9, Luke 18:12
5And the Lord put an answere in Balaams mouth, and sayde, Go againe to Balak, and say on this wise.
Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Isaiah 59:21
6So when he returned vnto him, loe, hee stoode by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7Then he vttered his parable, and sayde, Balak the king of Moab hath brought mee from Aram out of the mountaines of the East, saying, Come, curse Iaakob for my sake: come, and detest Israel.
Numbers 23:18, Numbers 22:5, Numbers 22:6, Numbers 24:3, Deuteronomy 23:4
8How shall I curse, where God hath not cursed? or howe shall I detest, where the Lord hath not detested?
Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:20, Isaiah 44:25, Numbers 23:20
9For from the top of the rocks I did see him, and from the hils I did beholde him: lo, the people shall dwell by themselues, and shall not be reckened among the nations.
Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 32:8, Exodus 33:16, Deuteronomy 32:8
10Who can tell the dust of Iaakob, and the nomber of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last ende be like his.
Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:37, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 13:16, Psalms 116:15
11Then Balak saide vnto Balaam, What hast thou done vnto mee? I tooke thee to curse mine enemies, and beholde, thou hast blessed them altogether.
Nehemiah 13:2, Nehemiah 13:2, Numbers 24:10, Numbers 24:10, Psalms 109:17
12And he answered, and said, Must I not take heede to speake that, which the Lord hath put in my mouth?
Numbers 22:38, Numbers 22:38, Numbers 23:26, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 24:13
13And Balak sayde vnto him, Come, I pray thee, with mee vnto another place, whence thou mayest see them, and thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: therefore curse them out of that place for my sake.
Psalms 109:17, James 3:9, James 3:10, Psalms 109:17, James 3:9
14And he brought him into Sede-sophim to the top of Pisgah, and built seuen altars, and offred a bullocke, and a ramme on euery altar.
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Isaiah 46:6
15After, he sayde vnto Balak, Stande here by thy burnt offring, and I wil meete the Lord yonder.
Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:3, Numbers 22:8, Numbers 22:8
16And the Lord mette Balaam, and put an answere in his mouth, and sayd, Goe againe vnto Balak, and say thus.
Numbers 23:5, Numbers 23:5, Numbers 22:35, Numbers 24:1, Numbers 22:35
17And when he came to him, beholde, hee stoode by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him: so Balak sayde vnto him, What hath the Lord sayd?
Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17, 1 Samuel 3:17, Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17
18And he vttered his parable, and sayde, Rise vp, Balak, and heare: hearken vnto me, thou sonne of Zippor.
Judges 3:20, Judges 3:20
19God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not accomplish it?
1 Samuel 15:29, 1 Samuel 15:29, James 1:17, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6
20Behold, I haue receiued commandement to blesse: for he hath blessed, and I cannot alter it.
John 10:27, John 10:29, John 10:27, John 10:29, Numbers 22:12
21Hee seeth none iniquitie in Iaakob, nor seeth no transgression in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the ioyfull shoute of a king is among them.
Psalms 23:4, Psalms 23:4, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 1:23, Jeremiah 50:20
22God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.
Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9
23For there is no sorcerie in Iaakob, nor soothsaying in Israel: according to this time it shalbe sayde of Iaakob and of Israel, What hath God wrought?
Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Joshua 13:22
24Behold, the people shall rise vp as a lyon, and lift vp himselfe as a yong lyon: hee shall not lye downe, till he eate of the pray, and till he drinke the blood of the slayne.
Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:27, Genesis 49:27, Zechariah 12:6
25Then Balak sayde vnto Balaam, Neither curse, nor blesse them at all.
Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3
26But Balaam answered, and saide vnto Balak, Tolde not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that must I do?
Acts 5:29, Acts 5:29, Numbers 22:18, Numbers 22:18, 2 Chronicles 18:13
27Againe Balak sayd vnto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I wil bring thee vnto another place, if so be it wil please God, that thou mayest thence curse them for my sake.
Romans 11:29, Romans 11:29, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11
28So Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Ieshmon.
Numbers 21:20, Numbers 21:20, Psalms 106:28, Psalms 106:28
29Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak, Make me here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2
30And Balak did as Balaam had sayd, and offred a bullocke and a ram on euery altar.

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