Numbers 22:12

Balak Hires Balaam

¹¹ 'Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt and covereth the face of the earth: come now therefore and curse me them, that so peradventure I may be able to overcome them in battle, and to drive them out.'" ¹² And God said unto Balaam, "Thou shalt not go with them, neither curse the people: for they are blessed." ¹³ And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the lords of Balak, "Get you unto your land, for the LORD will not suffer me to go with you."

Balaam

Israel

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.

Genesis 22:16-18

saying, "By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son,

Numbers 22:19-20

Nevertheless tarry ye here all night: that I may know what the LORD will say unto me once more."

Numbers 23:3

And Balaam said unto Balak, "Stand by the sacrifice, while I go to know whether the LORD will come and meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me, I will tell thee." And he went forthwith.

Numbers 23:13-15

And Balak said unto him, "Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place: whence thou shalt see them, and shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all and curse me them there."

Numbers 23:19-20

The Lord God is not a man, that he can lie; neither the son of a man, that he can repent! Should he say, and not do? Or should he speak, and not make it good?

Numbers 23:23

For there is no sorcerer in Jacob, nor soothsayer in Israel. When the time cometh, it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, 'What God hath wrought!'

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.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy art thou Israel: who is like unto thee? A people that art saved by the LORD; thy shield, and helper, and sword of thy glory. And thine enemies shall hide themselves from thee, and thou shalt walk upon their high hills."

Job 33:15-17

In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds -

Psalm 144:15

Happy are the people that be in such a case; yea, blessed are the people, which have the LORD for their God.

Psalm 146:5

Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the LORD his God,

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.

Matthew 27:19

When he was set down to give judgment, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that just man, I have suffered many things this day in a dream about him."

Romans 4:6-7

Even as David describeth the blessedfulness of the man, unto whom God ascribeth righteousness without deeds,

Romans 11:29

For verily the gifts and calling of God are such, that it cannot repent him of them.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which hath blessed us with all manner of spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ,