Deuteronomy 23:5

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁴ Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you ⁵ But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you. ⁶ Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

Give Ear

Balaam

Jehovah

Numbers 22:35

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak.

Numbers 23:5-12

And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

Numbers 24:9

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

Numbers 23:16-26

And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

Deuteronomy 33:3

All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings.

Psalm 73:1

Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.

Proverbs 26:2

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

Jeremiah 31:3

From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

Ezekiel 16:8

Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

Micah 6:5

O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.

Malachi 1:2

You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,

Romans 8:31

What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Romans 9:13

Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

Romans 11:28

As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,