Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them, neither shall you curse the people; for they are blessed.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 strike it, and cast it out of the land.

13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balac, 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 you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

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

Numbers 23:13And Balac said to him, Come yet with me to another place where you shall not see + 23:13 Gr. him or it the people, but only you shall see a part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from thence.

Numbers 23:23For there is no divination + 23:23 against in Jacob, nor enchantment in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel + 23:23 or, what shall God perform? what God shall perform.

Deuteronomy 7:14You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, + 7:14 Gr. and. or among your cattle.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your 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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