Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
Then the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
He took up his discourse and said,
“FromAram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
‘Come curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’
“From
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
‘
And come, denounce Israel!’
Numbers 23:8 (show verse)
And how can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
And I look at him from the hills;
And will not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
death » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
the Death of saints » The wicked wish theirs to resemble
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Man » Vanquished of the righteous » Greatly desired
The righteous » Seed of death of » Greatly desired
Righteousness » The wicked » Vainly wish to die as those who follow
the Death of saints » The wicked wish theirs to resemble
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Man » Vanquished of the righteous » Greatly desired
The righteous » Seed of death of » Greatly desired
Righteousness » The wicked » Vainly wish to die as those who follow
Numbers 23:11 (show verse)
Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
He replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:15 (show verse)
And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the Lord over there.”
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
Then the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
He came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
Then he took up his discourse and said,
“Arise, O Balak, and hear;
Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
“Arise, O Balak, and hear;
Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
He is for them like the
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
Nor is there any divination against Israel;
At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob
And to Israel, what God has done!
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
And as a lion it lifts itself;
It will not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘Whatever the Lord speaks, that I must do’?”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be agreeable with God that you curse them for me from there.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
Balak did just as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.