Numbers 22:12
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them,—Thou shalt not curse the people, For blessed, he is.
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Genesis 12:2That I may make thee into a great nation, And bless thee and make great thy name, And become thou a blessing;
Numbers 22:19Now, therefore abide here, I pray you even ye,—for the night,—that I may get to know what further Yahweh may be speaking with me.
Numbers 23:13Then said Balak unto him—Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see him, nothing but his utmost part, shalt thou see, but all of him, shalt thou not see,—and so revile me him from thence.
Numbers 23:23Surely, there is no enchantment against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel,—Now, shall it be said—Of Jacob and of Israel, What hath GOD wrought!
Deuteronomy 7:14Blessed shalt thou be beyond all the peoples,—there shall not be in thee a barren male or female, nor among thy cattle;
Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed, shalt thou be when thou comest in,—and, blessed, shalt thou be when thou goest 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 →