Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Because
Hired balaam
Bible References
Because
Matthew 25:40
And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.'
Hired balaam
Numbers 22:3
and the Moabites were sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and abhorred the children of Israel.
Joshua 24:9
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor for to curse you.
Our god
Numbers 23:8
How shall I curse whom God curseth not? And how shall I defy whom the LORD defieth not?
Numbers 24:5
How goodly are the tents of Jacob, and thine habitations Israel;
Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Psalm 109:28
Though they curse, yet bless thou; and let them be confounded, that rise up against me. But let thy servant rejoice.
Micah 6:5
Remember, O my people, what Balak the king of Moab had imagined against thee, and what answer that Balaam the son of Beor gave him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the loving-kindness of the LORD.