Parallel Verses

Amplified

The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner (soothsayer), with the sword among [the rest of] their slain.

New American Standard Bible

The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain.

King James Version

Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

Holman Bible

Along with those the Israelites put to death, they also killed the diviner, Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.

International Standard Version

The Israelis also killed Beor's son Balaam, the occult practitioner, executing him with a sword as one of those killed.

A Conservative Version

The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain.

American Standard Version

Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

Bible in Basic English

And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

Darby Translation

And Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among them that were slain by them.

Julia Smith Translation

And Balaam son of Beor, divining, the sons of Israel slew with the sword to those being wounded by them.

King James 2000

Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[In addition] to their slain, the {Israelites} killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

Modern King James verseion

The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword, among their slain.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Balaam, also, the son of Beor, the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword, among other that were slain.

NET Bible

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.

New Heart English Bible

The children of Israel also killed Balaam, the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

The Emphasized Bible

Balaam also son of Beor, the diviner, did the sons of Israel slay with the sword among their slain.

Webster

Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain by them.

World English Bible

The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלעם 
Bil`am 
Usage: 61

of Beor
בּעור 
B@`owr 
Usage: 10

קסם 
Qacam 
Usage: 20

of Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

with the sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413


unto, with, against, at, into, in, before, to, of, upon, by, toward, hath, for, on, beside, from, where, after, within
Usage: 0

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 94

Context Readings

Reuben's Inheritance

21 even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck down along with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22 The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner (soothsayer), with the sword among [the rest of] their slain. 23 The border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, with their cities and villages.


Cross References

Numbers 31:8

They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur [the father of Cozbi] and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; also Balaam the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Numbers 22:5-7

So he sent messengers to Balaam [a famous prophet-diviner] the son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the [Euphrates] River, in the land of the descendants of his people, to call for him, saying, “There is a people who have come out of Egypt; behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.

Numbers 24:1

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as he had done each time before [superstitiously] to seek omens and signs [in the natural world], but he set his face toward the wilderness (desert).

2 Peter 2:15

Abandoning the straight road [that is, the right way to live], they have gone astray; they have followed the way of [the false teacher] Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness;

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone the [defiant] way of Cain, and for profit they have run headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of [mutinous] Korah.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some [among you] who are holding to the [corrupt] teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, [enticing them] to eat things that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit [acts of sexual] immorality.

Revelation 19:20

And the beast (Antichrist) was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who, in his presence, had performed [amazing] signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were hurled alive into the lake of fire which blazes with brimstone.

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