Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And Balsam will lift up his eyes and see Israel dwelling according to his tribes; and the spirit of God will be upon him.
New American Standard Bible
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel
King James Version
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
Holman Bible
When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God
International Standard Version
looked up, and saw Israel encamped in their respective tribal order. Just then, the spirit of God came upon him.
A Conservative Version
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, and the Spirit of God came upon him.
American Standard Version
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
Amplified
And Balaam raised his eyes and he saw Israel living in their tents tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came on him.
Bible in Basic English
And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.
Darby Translation
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel dwelling in tents according to his tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
King James 2000
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in its tents according to its tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it.
Modern King James verseion
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel pitched, according to their tribes. And the Spirit of God came upon him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and lift up his eyes and looked upon Israel as he lay with his tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him.
NET Bible
When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
New Heart English Bible
Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
The Emphasized Bible
So Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel, dwelling, according to his tribes, - then came upon him the Spirit of God;
Webster
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him.
World English Bible
Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Balaam lifteth up his eyes, and seeth Israel tabernacling, by its tribes, and the Spirit of God is upon him,
Themes
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Spirit » Examples of men receiving the gift of, under the old dispensation » balaam
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 24:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Balaam Continues To Utter Oracles
1 And Balaam will see that it was good in the eyes of Jehovah to praise Israel, and he went not now as before to meet enchantments, and he will set his face to the desert 2 And Balsam will lift up his eyes and see Israel dwelling according to his tribes; and the spirit of God will be upon him. 3 And he will take up his parable and say, Balaam, the son of Beor, and the man of unclosed eye, said;
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:20
And Saul will send messengers to take David: and seeing the assembly of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing, being set up over them, and the spirit of God will be upon Saul's messengers, and they will prophesy, also they.
2 Chronicles 15:1
And Azariah son of Oded, upon him was the spirit of God.
1 Samuel 10:10
And they will come there to Gibeab, and behold, a band of prophets to meet him; and the spirit of God will fall suddenly upon him and he will prophesy in the midst of them.
1 Samuel 19:23
And he will go there to Naioth in Ramah: and the spirit of God will be upon him, him also, and going, he will go and prophesy even till his coming into Naioth in Ramah.
Numbers 2:2-34
A man by his flag with the ensign according to the house of their fathers, shall the sons of Israel encamp: from over against the tent of appointment round about shall they encamp.
Numbers 11:25-29
And Jehovah will come down in the cloud, and will speak to him, and he will take from the spirit which is upon him, and will give upon the seventy men, the old men: and it shall be in the resting of the spirit upon them, and they shall prophesy, and they shall not cease.
Numbers 23:9-10
From the head of the rocks I shall see him, and from the hills I shall look after him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 24:5
How good thy tents, Jacob, and thy dwellings, Israel!
Song of Songs 6:4
Thou art beautiful my friend, as delight; becoming as Jerusalem, a terror as those being furnished with banners.
Song of Songs 6:10
Who this looking forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, a terror as those being furnished with banners?
Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers?
Matthew 10:4
Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, he also having delivered him up.
Matthew 10:8
Cure the sick, cleanse the leprous, rouse the dead, cast out demons; as a gift ye have received, as a gift give.
Luke 10:20
But in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, that your names were written in the heavens.
John 11:49-51
And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing,