Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me.” So he went to a barren hill.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
God met with him and Balaam said to Him, “I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
Balaam proclaimed his poem:
Balak brought me from Aram;
the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:
“Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel!”
the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:
“Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel!”
Numbers 23:8 (show verse)
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
and I watch them from the hills.
There is a people living alone;
it does not consider itself among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
or numbered the dust clouds
Let me die the death of the upright;
let the end of my life be like theirs.
Numbers 23:11 (show verse)
“What have you done to me?” Balak asked Balaam. “I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed them!”
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
He answered, “Shouldn’t I say exactly what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:15 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.”
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
Balaam proclaimed his poem:
Balak, get up and listen;
son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!
son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
or a son of man who changes His mind.
Does He speak and not act,
or promise and not fulfill?
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
since He has blessed,
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
He sees no trouble for Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
and no divination against Israel.
It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,
“What great things God has done!”
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
They rouse themselves like a lion.
They will not lie down until they devour the prey
and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
Then Balak told Balaam, “Don’t curse them and don’t bless them!”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam answered him, “Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the Lord says, I must do?”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
Again Balak said to Balaam, “Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there.”
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
Balaam told Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
So Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.