Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them, and do not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

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In The King James Version

And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

In Context

11saying: ‘Behold, a people, which has gone forth from Egypt, has covered the face of the earth. Come and curse them, so that, in some way, I may be able to fight them and drive them away.’”

13And he, rising up in the morning, said to the leaders, “Go into your own land, for the Lord has prohibited me from going with you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.

Numbers 22:19I beg you to remain for this night also, so that I may know what the Lord will answer me again.”

Numbers 23:13Therefore, Balak said: “Come with me to another place, from where you may see a portion of Israel, though you cannot see them all. Curse them from there.”

Numbers 23:23There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor any divination in Israel. In their times, it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God has wrought.

Deuteronomy 7:14Blessed shall you be among all peoples. No one will be barren among you of either gender, as much among men as among your herds.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shall you be entering and departing.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:2-15

Balak Sends for Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 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… Read the whole commentary →

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