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So he took him to the Field of Zophim on top of Mount Pisgah. He built seven altars there. He offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Then Balaam said to Balak: Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet with God over there. Jehovah met Balaam and told him what to say. He sent him back to Balak to give him his message. read more.
So he returned and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering. He was with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what Jehovah said. Balaam uttered this prophecy: Come, Balak son of Zippor, and listen to what I have to say. 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? I have been instructed to bless. And when God blesses, I cannot call it back. He has not observed wickedness in Jacob. Nor has he seen trouble in Israel! Jehovah his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them. God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull. 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! Behold, the nation of Israel! It is like a mighty lion: It will rise and not lie down again until it has torn and devoured it's pray. It will drink the blood of those it has killed.
So he returned and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering. He was with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what Jehovah said. Balaam uttered this prophecy: Come, Balak son of Zippor, and listen to what I have to say. 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? I have been instructed to bless. And when God blesses, I cannot call it back. He has not observed wickedness in Jacob. Nor has he seen trouble in Israel! Jehovah his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them. God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull. 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! Behold, the nation of Israel! It is like a mighty lion: It will rise and not lie down again until it has torn and devoured it's pray. It will drink the blood of those it has killed.
Zippor » Father of balak
The king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, fought against you. He sent word to Balaam son of Beor and asked him to put a curse on you.
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So the Moabites said to the leaders of Midian: All those people will eventually eat up everything around us the same way cattle eat up the grass in a field. At that time Balak, son of Zippor, was king of Moab.
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Balak, son of Zippor, saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
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Balaam answered: Balak, son of King Zippor of Moab, sent them with this message:
When they came to Balaam they said to him: This is what Balak son of Zippor says: 'Do not let anything keep you from coming to me.
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Balaam uttered this prophecy: Come, Balak son of Zippor, and listen to what I have to say.
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