Numbers 22:6

Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may divorce them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5He sent messengers to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

7The elders of Moab [From father] and the elders of Midian [Strife] departed with the rewards of divination + 22:7. Quoted in 2 Pet 2:15 in their hand. They came to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], and spoke to him the words of Balak.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. + 12:3. MP: Descendant of Abraham - “By you all the nations of the earth (the Gentiles, non-Jews) will be blessed.” (Luke 24:47; Gal 3:16) All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.” + 12:3. Quoted in Gal 3:8

Numbers 22:12God said to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.” (RY:5, LY:2)

Numbers 23:7He took up his parable, and said, 1 “From Aram [Elevated] has Balak brought me, 2 the king of Moab [From father] from the mountains of the East. 1 Come, curse Jacob [Supplanter] for me. 2 Come, defy Israel [God prevails]. 1

Numbers 23:27Balak said to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

Deuteronomy 23:4because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery], and because they hired against you Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people] the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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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