Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
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Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the leaders of Moab.
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Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
And he took up his oracle, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse for me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel.
Numbers 23:8 (show verse)
How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I denounce, whom the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
death » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
the Death of saints » The wicked wish theirs to resemble
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Man » Vanquished of the righteous » Greatly desired
The righteous » Seed of death of » Greatly desired
Righteousness » The wicked » Vainly wish to die as those who follow
the Death of saints » The wicked wish theirs to resemble
Dying » Of the righteous » Greatly desired
Man » Vanquished of the righteous » Greatly desired
The righteous » Seed of death of » Greatly desired
Righteousness » The wicked » Vainly wish to die as those who follow
Numbers 23:11 (show verse)
And Balak said unto Balaam, What have you done unto me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from which you may see them: you shall see but the outer part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse them for me from there.
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Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23:15 (show verse)
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What has the LORD spoken?
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
And he took up his oracle, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor:
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of a wild ox.
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
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Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
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Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looks toward the wasteland.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.