Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

Majority Standard Bible

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

11‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”

13So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Numbers 22:19So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

Numbers 23:13Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”

Numbers 23:23For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

Deuteronomy 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go 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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