Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
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Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went to a deserted height.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
Then God met Balaam, who said to him, "I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram."
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Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
Then the Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
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Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, "Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, 'Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
Numbers 23:8 (show verse)
How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs."
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)
Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!"
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
Balaam replied, "Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?"
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there."
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Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:15 (show verse)
And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?"
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
He has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; his acclamation as king is among them.
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel, 'Look at what God has done!'
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain."
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!"
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Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the Lord speaks, I must do'?"
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Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
Balak said to Balaam, "Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."
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Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.