Numbers 23 (NET)

Numbers 23:1¹Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:29Jude 1:111 Chr 15:261 Sam 15:222 Chr 29:212 Kgs 18:22Exod 20:24Exod 27:1-8Ezek 33:31Ezek 45:23

Numbers 23:2²So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:14Num 23:30

Numbers 23:3³Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:15Gen 22:13Gen 22:2Gen 22:7-8Gen 8:20Lev 1:1Num 22:31-35Num 24:1Exod 18:12Num 22:8-9

Numbers 23:4⁴Then God met Balaam, who said to him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:16Eph 2:9Luke 18:12Isa 58:3-4John 16:2Matt 20:12Num 22:20Num 22:9Num 23:1Rom 3:27

Numbers 23:5⁵Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:18Jer 1:9Isa 51:16Isa 59:21Num 23:16John 11:51Luke 12:12Num 22:20Num 22:35Prov 16:1

Numbers 23:6⁶So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 23:7⁷Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:4Num 22:5-6Num 23:18Num 24:3Job 29:1Mic 2:4Num 24:15Num 24:23Ps 78:21 Sam 17:45

Numbers 23:8⁸How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:23Isa 44:25Num 23:20Num 22:12Isa 47:12-13

Numbers 23:9⁹For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:28Deut 32:8Exod 33:16Esth 3:8Ezra 9:21 Pet 2:92 Cor 6:17Amos 9:9Eph 2:12-14Exod 19:5-6

Numbers 23:10¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 37:37Gen 13:16Ps 116:15Rev 14:132 Cor 5:12 Tim 4:6-8Isa 57:1-21 Cor 15:53-57Gen 22:17Gen 28:14

Numbers 23:11¹¹Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:2Num 24:10Num 22:17Num 23:7-8Ps 109:17-20Num 22:11

Numbers 23:12¹²Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 22:38Num 23:20Num 23:26Num 24:13Prov 26:25Num 22:20Rom 16:18Titus 1:16

Numbers 23:13¹³Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:9-10Ps 109:171 Kgs 20:231 Kgs 20:28Josh 24:9Mic 6:5Num 22:41

Numbers 23:14¹⁴So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:27Deut 34:1Deut 4:49Hos 12:11Isa 1:10-11Isa 46:6Num 21:20Num 23:1-2Num 23:29

Numbers 23:15¹⁵And Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:3Num 22:8

Numbers 23:16¹⁶Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:5Num 22:35Num 24:1

Numbers 23:17¹⁷When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:17Jer 37:17Num 23:26

Numbers 23:18¹⁸Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 3:20

Numbers 23:19¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:29Jas 1:17Heb 6:18Mal 3:6Titus 1:2Luke 21:33Rom 11:29Hab 2:3Ps 89:35Hos 11:9

Numbers 23:20²⁰Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:27-29Num 22:12Gen 12:2Gen 22:17Isa 43:13Num 22:18Rom 8:38-391 Pet 1:5Num 22:38

Numbers 23:21²¹He has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; his acclamation as king is among them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 23:4Matt 1:23Jer 50:20Rom 4:7-8Exod 29:45-46Isa 38:17Ps 46:11Hos 14:2-4Isa 1:18Isa 33:22

Numbers 23:22²²God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 24:8Deut 33:17Exod 20:2Job 39:9-11Ps 22:21Exod 14:18Exod 9:16Num 22:5Ps 68:35Ps 92:10

Numbers 23:23²³For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Look at what God has done!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 10:18-19Josh 13:22Mic 6:4-5Num 24:1Ps 64:9Rom 16:20Gal 1:23-24Matt 12:27Num 22:6-7Acts 10:38

Numbers 23:24²⁴Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 49:27Gen 49:9Num 24:17Num 24:8-9Rev 5:5Zech 12:6Amos 3:8Deut 33:20Isa 31:4Mic 5:8-9

Numbers 23:25²⁵Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 2:1-3

Numbers 23:26²⁶But Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, I must do’?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:29Num 22:182 Chr 18:13Acts 4:19-20Num 22:381 Kgs 22:14Num 23:12-13Num 24:12-13

Numbers 23:27²⁷Balak said to Balaam, “Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:29Isa 14:27Isa 46:10-11Job 23:13Num 23:13Num 23:19-20Prov 19:21Prov 21:30Mal 3:6

Numbers 23:28²⁸So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wastelands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 21:20Ps 106:28

Numbers 23:29²⁹Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 23:1-2

Numbers 23:30³⁰So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI