Numbers 23:4
Now God met Balaam, who said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
Numbers 23:16
Then the Lord met Balaam and put a speech in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak and you shall speak thus.”
Numbers 22:9
God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
Numbers 22:20
God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but you shall still do only what I tell you.”
Numbers 23:1
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams here.”
Isaiah 58:3-4
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You do not see it?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find something you desire [to do],
And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches].
Matthew 20:12
Luke 18:12
John 16:2
Romans 3:27
Then what becomes of [our] boasting? It is excluded [entirely ruled out, banished]. On what principle? On [the principle of good] works? No, but on the principle of faith.
Ephesians 2:9
not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].
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I have prepared
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I have prepared
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You do not see it?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find something you desire [to do],
And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches].