Numbers 22:12
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
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Genesis 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Numbers 22:19Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else the LORD will speak to me.”
Numbers 23:13Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
Numbers 23:23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock.
Deuteronomy 28:6You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be 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 →