Numbers 22:12

And God said unto Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people: for they are blessed.

Updated King James Version

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, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covers the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; possibly I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

Numbers 22:19Now therefore, I pray you, tarry all of you also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.

Numbers 23:13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from whence you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

Numbers 23:23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

Deuteronomy 7:14You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be 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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