Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, neither shalt thou curse the people; for they are blessed.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

11Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and it has encamped near to me; and now come, curse it for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite it, and cast it out of the land.

13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Depart quickly to your lord; God does not permit me to go with you.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Numbers 22:19And now do ye also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

Numbers 23:13And Balak said to him, Come yet with me to another place where thou shalt not see the people, but only thou shalt see a part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.

Numbers 23:23For there is no divination in Jacob, 1 Nor enchantment in Israel; 1 In season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel 1 What God shall perform. 1

Deuteronomy 7:14Thou shalt be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among thy cattle.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.

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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