Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
God 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."
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Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
He 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 23:8 (show verse)
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
For 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.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
Who 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!"
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)
Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
Balak 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."
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
He 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 23:15 (show verse)
He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
He 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 Yahweh spoken?"
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
God 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?
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
Surely 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!
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
Behold, 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."
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."
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Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"
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Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
Balak 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."
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.