Numbers 22 (NET)

Numbers 22:1¹The Israelites traveled on and camped in the rift valley plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:5Deut 3:8Deut 34:1Deut 34:8Josh 3:16Num 21:20Num 32:19Num 33:48-50Num 34:15Num 36:13

Numbers 22:2²Balak son of Zippor saw all that the Israelites had done to the Amorites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 11:25Num 21:20-35Num 21:3

Numbers 22:3³And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 15:15Isa 23:5Deut 2:25Josh 2:10-11Josh 2:24Josh 9:24Ps 53:5

Numbers 22:4⁴So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field.” Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 25:15-18Num 31:8Jer 48:38Josh 13:21-22Judg 11:25Num 22:2Num 22:7Num 24:17

Numbers 22:5⁵And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying, “Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:4Josh 24:9Mic 6:5Jude 1:11Josh 13:22Num 23:72 Pet 2:15-16Exod 1:7-10Gen 13:16Neh 13:1-2

Numbers 22:6⁶So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:9Num 23:7-81 Kgs 22:131 Kgs 22:61 Kgs 22:81 Sam 17:43Acts 16:16Acts 8:9-10Deut 23:4Ezek 13:6

Numbers 22:7⁷So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hands. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 9:7-8Mic 3:111 Tim 6:9-102 Pet 2:15Ezek 13:19Isa 56:11Jude 1:11Num 23:23Num 24:1Rom 16:18

Numbers 22:8⁸He replied to them, “Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the Lord may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:31Jer 12:2Num 12:6Num 22:19-20Num 23:12

Numbers 22:9⁹And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:3Num 22:202 Kgs 20:14-15Dan 4:31-32Exod 4:2Gen 16:8Gen 3:9-11Gen 4:9Dan 2:45Gen 31:24

Numbers 22:10¹⁰Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 22:11¹¹‘Look, a nation has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 22:12¹²But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:5Eph 1:3Rom 11:29Gen 12:2Num 23:19-20Deut 33:29Rom 4:6-7Gen 22:16-18Mic 6:5Num 22:19-20

Numbers 22:13¹³So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, for the Lord has refused to permit me to go with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:5Num 22:14

Numbers 22:14¹⁴So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 22:13Num 22:37

Numbers 22:15¹⁵Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 10:7-8Num 22:7-8

Numbers 22:16¹⁶And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 22:17¹⁷For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:11Deut 16:9Esth 5:11Esth 7:9Matt 14:7Matt 16:26Matt 4:8-9Num 22:37Num 22:6Num 23:2-3

Numbers 22:18¹⁸Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the Lord my God to do less or more.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:131 Kgs 22:142 Chr 18:13Num 23:26Num 22:38Acts 8:20Dan 5:17Titus 1:16

Numbers 22:19¹⁹Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jude 1:111 Tim 6:9-102 Pet 2:152 Pet 2:3Num 22:7-8

Numbers 22:20²⁰God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:12Num 23:26Num 24:13Num 22:351 Sam 12:12-191 Sam 8:5-92 Thess 2:9-12Ezek 14:2-5Hos 13:11Isa 37:29

Numbers 22:21²¹So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:15-16

Numbers 22:22²²Then God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Now he was riding on his donkey and his two servants were with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:24Lam 2:4Num 22:32Exod 23:202 Kgs 10:20Hos 1:4Hos 12:4-5Num 22:35Exod 3:2-6Gen 48:15-16

Numbers 22:23²³And the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jude 1:111 Cor 1:27-292 Pet 2:161 Chr 21:162 Kgs 6:17Acts 22:9Dan 10:7Jer 8:7

Numbers 22:24²⁴Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 22:25²⁵And when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 47:12Job 5:13-15

Numbers 22:26²⁶Then the angel of the Lord went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:6Isa 26:11

Numbers 22:27²⁷When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 14:16Jas 1:19Prov 27:3-4

Numbers 22:28²⁸Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:16Exod 4:11Luke 1:371 Cor 1:19Rom 8:22

Numbers 22:29²⁹And Balaam said to the donkey, “You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 12:10Matt 15:19Prov 12:16Eccl 9:3

Numbers 22:30³⁰The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:161 Cor 1:27-28

Numbers 22:31³¹Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; so he bowed his head and threw himself down with his face to the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:19Luke 24:311 Chr 21:16Acts 26:18Luke 24:16Num 24:16Num 24:4Exod 34:8John 18:6Ps 9:20

Numbers 22:32³²The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:10Num 22:22Prov 28:18Prov 14:2Prov 28:62 Pet 2:14-15Deut 23:4Deut 25:4Exod 3:2-6Jonah 4:11

Numbers 22:33³³The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:24-28Num 14:37Num 16:33-35

Numbers 22:34³⁴Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back home.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:24Job 34:31-322 Sam 12:131 Sam 15:301 Sam 26:211 Chr 21:71 Sam 24:17Exod 10:16-17Exod 9:27Matt 27:4-5

Numbers 22:35³⁵But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:9-12Isa 37:26-29Num 22:20-21Ps 81:12

Numbers 22:36³⁶When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab that was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 28:15Isa 16:2Jer 48:20Deut 2:24Deut 3:8Exod 18:7Gen 14:17Gen 18:2Gen 46:29Judg 11:18

Numbers 22:37³⁷Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:11John 5:44Luke 4:6Matt 4:8-9Num 22:16-17Ps 75:6

Numbers 22:38³⁸Balaam said to Balak, “Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able to speak just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 22:18Prov 19:21Num 23:16Num 23:261 Kgs 22:142 Chr 18:13Isa 44:25Isa 46:10Isa 47:12Num 24:13

Numbers 22:39³⁹So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 22:40⁴⁰And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:14Prov 1:16Gen 31:54Num 23:2Num 23:30

Numbers 22:41⁴¹Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. From there he saw the extent of the nation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:132 Chr 11:15Deut 12:2Jer 48:35Num 21:28Num 25:2-3