Numbers 22:20
God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but you shall still do only what I tell you.”
Numbers 23:12
Balaam answered, “Must I not be obedient and careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:26
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not say to you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’”
Numbers 24:13
‘Even if Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own accord. What the Lord speaks, that I will speak?’
Numbers 22:35
The Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you shall speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went along with the leaders of Balak.
Numbers 23:5
Then the Lord put a speech in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”
Numbers 23:16
Then the Lord met Balaam and put a speech in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak and you shall speak thus.”
1 Samuel 8:5-9
and said to him, “Look, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us [and rule over us] like all the other nations.”
1 Samuel 12:12-19
But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites had come against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us’—although the Lord your God was your King.
Psalm 33:10-11
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He makes the thoughts and plans of the people ineffective.
Psalm 78:30-31
Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,
Psalm 81:12
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
Isaiah 37:29
“Because your raging against Me
And your arrogance has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your
And I will turn you back by the way you came.
Ezekiel 14:2-5
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king in My anger,
And I took him away in My wrath [as punishment].
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
The coming of the [Antichrist, the lawless] one is through the activity of Satan, [attended] with great power [all kinds of counterfeit miracles] and [deceptive] signs and false wonders [all of them lies],
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If the men
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.
But yet
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He makes the thoughts and plans of the people ineffective.
Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,
“Because your raging against Me
And your arrogance has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your
And I will turn you back by the way you came.
I gave you a king in My anger,
And I took him away in My wrath [as punishment].