Numbers 22:12

Balak Hires Balaam

¹¹ Some people came from Egypt and are spreading out all over the countryside. Now come and curse them for me. Maybe I will be able to fight them and force them out. ¹² God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.” ¹³ When Balaam got up in the morning, he said to Balak's princes: Go back to your own country. Jehovah has refused to let me go with you.

Balaam

Israel

Genesis 12:2

I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 22:16-18

He said: I am taking an oath on my own name, declares Jehovah, that because you have done this and have not refused to give me your son, your only son,

Numbers 22:19-20

Now, please stay here tonight, as the others did, and I will find out what else Jehovah may have to tell me.

Numbers 23:3

Then Balaam said to Balak: Stand here by your burnt offering. I will go to see whether or not Jehovah will meet me. I will tell you what he reveals to me. So he went alone to the top of a hill.

Numbers 23:13-15

Balak said: Please come with me to another place, where you can see the Israelites. You will see only some of them, not all of them. Curse them for me from there.

Numbers 23:19-20

God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act?

Numbers 23:23

For there is omen (spell) against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel. At the proper time it will be said to Jacob and Israel: What God has done!

Deuteronomy 23:5

Jehovah your God was not willing to listen to Balaam. Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because Jehovah your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 33:29

You are blessed O Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by Jehovah? He is the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! So your enemies will cringe before you and you will tread upon their high places.

Job 33:15-17

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds,

Psalm 144:15

How blessed are the people who are so situated. How blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah!

Psalm 146:5

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Jehovah his God!

Micah 6:5

O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.

Matthew 27:19

While he was seated in judgment his wife sent a message to him. She said, Do not judge that righteous man. I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.

Romans 4:6-7

David also pronounces blessing on the man, to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

Romans 11:29

The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.