Numbers 23:7

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Summary

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

He took

Come

Numbers 22:6

Proverbs 26:2

Defy israel

1 Samuel 17:10

2 Samuel 21:21

2 Samuel 23:9

General references

Numbers 23:11

Numbers 24:15

Bible References

He took

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Hearken to me, thou son of Zippor.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

And Job again took up his parable, and said,

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Then I said, Ah lord LORD! They say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!

He spoke another parable to them. The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which having taken, a woman hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

And they sought to seize him. And they feared the multitude, for they knew that he spoke the parable against them. And having left him, they went away.

Come

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse for me this people, for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom thou bless is blessed, a

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

Defy israel

And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.

And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

General references

And Balak said to Balaam, What have thou done to me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou have blessed them altogether.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,