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Numbers Chapter 23

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Numbers 23

1Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:29, Numbers 23:29, Proverbs 15:8, Jude 1:11, 1 Samuel 15:22
2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30
3Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.
Numbers 23:15, Numbers 23:15, Genesis 22:2, Numbers 24:1, Genesis 22:7
4God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."
Numbers 23:16, Numbers 23:16, Luke 18:12, Ephesians 2:9, Luke 18:12
5The Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Isaiah 59:21
6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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 Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Numbers 23:18, Numbers 22:5, Numbers 22:6, Numbers 24:3, Deuteronomy 23:4
8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the Lord has not defied?
Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:20, Isaiah 44:25, Numbers 23:20
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.
Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 32:8, Exodus 33:16, Deuteronomy 32:8
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!"
Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:37, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 13:16, Psalms 116:15
11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."
Nehemiah 13:2, Nehemiah 13:2, Numbers 24:10, Numbers 24:10, Psalms 109:17
12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord puts in my mouth?"
Numbers 22:38, Numbers 22:38, Numbers 23:26, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 24:13
13Balak 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."
Psalms 109:17, James 3:9, James 3:10, Psalms 109:17, James 3:9
14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Isaiah 46:6
15He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet over there."
Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:3, Numbers 22:8, Numbers 22:8
16The Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."
Numbers 23:5, Numbers 23:5, Numbers 22:35, Numbers 24:1, Numbers 22:35
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 the Lord spoken?"
Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17, 1 Samuel 3:17, Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17
18He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
Judges 3:20, Judges 3:20
19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor 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?
1 Samuel 15:29, 1 Samuel 15:29, James 1:17, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6
20Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
John 10:27, John 10:29, John 10:27, John 10:29, Numbers 22:12
21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
Psalms 23:4, Psalms 23:4, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 1:23, Jeremiah 50:20
22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9
23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Joshua 13:22
24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."
Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:27, Genesis 49:27, Zechariah 12:6
25Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."
Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3
26But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, 'All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?'"
Acts 5:29, Acts 5:29, Numbers 22:18, Numbers 22:18, 2 Chronicles 18:13
27Balak 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."
Romans 11:29, Romans 11:29, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11
28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
Numbers 21:20, Numbers 21:20, Psalms 106:28, Psalms 106:28
29Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2
30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

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