And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
sent
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of …
Joshua 24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against …
Nehemiah 13:1,2 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the …
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and …
2 Peter 2:15,16 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …
son of Bosor
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them …
Pethor. Dr. Kennicott justly remarks, that the description now given of Balaam's residence, instead of being particular, agrees with any place, in any country where there is a river; for he lived by `Pethor, which is by the river of the land of his people.' But was Petor, then, near the Nile in Egypt? Or in Canaan, near Jordan? Or in Mesopotamia, near the Euphrates, and belonging to the Ammonites? This last was in fact the case; and therefore, it is well that twelve Hebrews MSS.(with two of De Rossi's) confirm the Samaritan text here, in reading instead of Ammo, his people,' Ammon, with the Syriac and the Syriac and Vulgate versions. Houbigant justly contends for this reading; and necessity urges the propriety of adopting it: and it thus agrees with
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
Numbers 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has …
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
they cover
Genesis 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a …
Exodus 1:7-19 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, …
Psalm 105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
face. Heb. eye
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
curse me
Numbers 23:7,8 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has …
Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall …
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: …
Genesis 27:29 Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your …
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
Joshua 24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against …
1 Samuel 17:43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me …
Nehemiah 13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, …
Psalm 109:17,18 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in …
I wot
1 Kings 22:6,8,13 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four …
Psalm 109:28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; …
Proverbs 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse …
Isaiah 47:12,13 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your …
Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD said: …
Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the …
Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed …
And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.
rewards of divination
1 Samuel 9:7,8 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall …
Isaiah 56:11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are …
Ezekiel 13:19 And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and …
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach …
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly…
1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
Titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching …
2 Peter 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following …
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
Numbers 22:19,20 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I …
Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, …
Numbers 23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which …
Jeremiah 12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, …
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you …
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
God
Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; …
Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, …
Genesis 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to …
Genesis 41:25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God has …
Daniel 2:45 For as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain …
Daniel 4:31,32 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, …
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied …
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall …
John 11:51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, …
what men
Genesis 3:9-11 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you…
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, …
Genesis 16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, from where came you? and where …
Exodus 4:2 And the LORD said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.
2 Kings 20:14,15 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What …
And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
able to overcome them. heb. prevail in fighting against them
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
Balaam, Thou shalt
Numbers 22:20 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come …
Job 33:15-17 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, …
Matthew 27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, …
thou shalt not curse
Numbers 22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry you also here this night, that I …
Numbers 23:3,13-15,19,23 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will …
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and …
for they
Numbers 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; …
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …
Genesis 22:16-18 And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you …
Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; but the …
Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like to you, O people saved by the …
Psalm 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yes, happy is that …
Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is …
Romans 4:6,7 Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom …
Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed …
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
let nothing. Heb. be not thou letted from.
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
I will promote
Numbers 24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to …
Deuteronomy 16:9 Seven weeks shall you number to you: begin to number the seven weeks …
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …
Esther 7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold …
Matthew 4:8,9 Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and …
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
and I will do
Numbers 23:2,3,29,30 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered …
Matthew 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask.
come
Numbers 22:6 Come now therefore, I pray you, curse me this people; for they are …
curse me. An erroneous opinion prevailed, both in those days and in after ages, that some men had the power, by the help of their gods, to devote, not only particular persons, but cities and whole armies, to destruction. This they are said to have done sometimes by words of imprecation; of which there was a set form among some people, which AEschines calls the determinate curse. Macrobius has a whole chapter on this subject. He gives us two of the ancient forms used in reference to the destruction of Carthage; the first, which was only pronounced by the dictator, or general, was to call over the protecting deities to their side, and the other to devote the city to destruction, which they were supposed to have abandoned. The Romans held, that no city would be taken till its tutelary god had forsaken it; or if it could be taken, it would be unlawful, as it would be sacrilege to lead the gods into captivity. Virgil intimates, that Troy was destroyed because All the gods, by whose assistance the empire had hitherto been preserved, forsook their altars and temples.
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
If Balak
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
I cannot
Numbers 23:26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Told not I you, saying, All …
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …
1 Kings 22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, what the LORD said to me, that …
2 Chronicles 18:13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, even what my God said, that will I speak.
Daniel 5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be …
Acts 8:20 But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you have …
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
God
Numbers 22:9 And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
if the men
1 Samuel 8:5-9 And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons walk not in your …
1 Samuel 12:12-19 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came …
Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their …
Ezekiel 14:2-5 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying…
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power …
but ye
Numbers 22:35 And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men: but only …
Numbers 23:12,26 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which …
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …
Psalm 33:10,11 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the …
Psalm 78:30,31 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was …
Isaiah 37:29 Because your rage against me, and your tumult, is come up into my …
Hosea 13:11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
God's
2 Kings 10:20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little …
and the angel
Numbers 22:35 And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men: but only …
Genesis 48:15,16 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham …
Exodus 3:2-6 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out …
Hosea 12:4,5 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made …
stood
Numbers 22:32 And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you smitten your …
Exodus 4:24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, …
Lamentations 2:4 He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as …
And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
opened
Numbers 24:4 He has said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of …
Genesis 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, …
2 Kings 6:17-20 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that …
1 Chronicles 21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand …
Luke 24:16,31 But their eyes were held that they should not know him…
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and …
bowed down
Exodus 34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
Psalm 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to …
John 18:6 As soon then as he had said to them, I am he, they went backward, …
Fell flat on his face. or bowed himself
And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
wherefore
Numbers 22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, …
Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are …
Psalm 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalm 147:9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city…
withstand thee. Heb. be an adversary unto thee
Numbers 22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the …
thy ways
Deuteronomy 23:4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when …
Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is …
Micah 6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and …
Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, you child of the …
2 Peter 2:14,15 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling …
before me
Numbers 22:20,22,35 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come …
Exodus 3:2-6 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out …
Proverbs 14:2 He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse …
Proverbs 28:18 Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in …
And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
I Have sinned
Exodus 9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, …
Exodus 10:16,17 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I …
1 Samuel 15:24,30 And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the …
1 Samuel 24:17 And he said to David, You are more righteous than I: for you have …
1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no …
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan …
Job 34:31,32 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I …
Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired …
Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
if it displease thee. Heb. be evil in thine eyes
Numbers 22:12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not …
Numbers 11:1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD …
1 Chronicles 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
Proverbs 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
I will act
Job 34:31,32 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I …
And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.
went
Genesis 14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from …
Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, see, three men stood by …
Genesis 46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his …
Exodus 18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, …
1 Samuel 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering …
Acts 28:15 And from there, when the brothers heard of us, they came to meet …
the border
Numbers 21:13,14 From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon…
Deuteronomy 2:24 Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, …
Deuteronomy 3:8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the …
Judges 11:18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land …
Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, …
Jeremiah 48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell you …
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
I am not able
Numbers 22:16,17 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus said Balak the son …
Numbers 24:11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to …
Psalm 75:6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor …
Matthew 4:8,9 Again, the devil takes him up into an exceeding high mountain, and …
Luke 4:6 And the devil said to him, All this power will I give you, and the …
John 5:44 How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek …
And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
have I
Numbers 22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would …
Psalm 33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the …
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
Proverbs 19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel …
Isaiah 44:25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; …
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …
Isaiah 47:12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your …
the word
Numbers 23:16,26 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go …
Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …
1 Kings 22:14 And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, what the LORD said to me, that …
2 Chronicles 18:13 And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, even what my God said, that will I speak.
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.
Kirjath-huzoth, or a city of streets. Probably Rabbath-Moab, now called Rabba, the capital of the Moabites; and being the royal city, distinguished by its streets.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
high places. Bamoth baal, the high places of Baal, probably the same as Bamoth mentioned in ch
Numbers 21:19,20 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth…
Numbers 25:2,3 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the …
Deuteronomy 12:2 You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which …
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, …
Jeremiah 48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, said the LORD, him that offers …
utmost
Numbers 23:13 And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, …
