God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
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God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
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And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
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And God said unto Balaam: 'Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.'
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Passages linked to Numbers 22:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
- Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
- Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
- Genesis 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Numbers 23:19-20 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
- Romans 4:6-7 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- Genesis 22:16-18 and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
- Numbers 22:19-20 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.” God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
- Psalms 146:5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- Micah 6:5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”
- Numbers 23:23 Surely 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!’
- Matthew 27:19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
- Numbers 23:13-15 Balak 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.” He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
- Job 33:15-17 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed; Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
- Psalms 144:15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
- Numbers 23:3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He warned him by a dream, that he should…
He warned him by a dream, that he should not consent to the king’s wicked request.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain God revealeth his mind to Balaam, not for any…
God revealeth his mind to Balaam, not for any love to him, but for the sake of his people concerned in it, as he did to Pharaoh, Gen 41:25, and to Nebuchadnezzar, Dan 2:45.
They are blessed by my irrevocable decree and sentence, and therefore it is in vain for men to curse them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the princes of Moab rose up,.... And the…
And the princes of Moab rose up,.... And the princes of Midian also, immediately, without entering into a parley with him, to persuade him to go with them; perceiving by his answer that it would be to no purpose, and that he was determined to do as the Lord directed him:
and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us; as Balaam told them less than what God had said to him, so they related less to Balak than what Balaam had said to them; saying nothing of the Lord's refusing to let him go with them, but represent it as a piece of pride and obstinacy in Balaam, and which Balak was left to understand; and it seems as if he did understand it as a piece of policy in Balaam, to get a larger offer of money or honour, or both, from him, and which the following account seems to confirm.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 12. Thou shalt not go with them; thou…
Verse 12. Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people] That is, Thou shalt not go with them to curse the people. With them he might go, as we find he afterwards did by God's own command, but not to curse the people; this was wholly forbidden. Probably the command, Thou shalt not go, refers here to that time, viz., the first invitation: and in this sense it was most punctually obeyed by Balaam; see Nu 22:13.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 22:12. They are blessed — They are conducted…
Num 22:12. They are blessed — They are conducted under the banner of heaven, and no imprecations can hinder their progress. Though Balaam’s cursing Israel signified nothing of itself, yet God would not permit it, because the Moabites would have paid so great a regard to it, that they would thereupon have attacked the Israelites in hopes of being able to overcome and drive them back, Num 22:11; and so this would have brought on a war between them, which God did not design at this time to permit, Deu 2:9.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. For they are blessed — The blessing here…
12. For they are blessed — The blessing here pronounced is national and not individual. They are included in the covenant in which not only they are blessed, but through them, as the progenitors of the Messiah, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. for they are blessed] It was necessary to…
12. for they are blessed] It was necessary to inform Balaam of this; as a foreigner in far Mesopotamia he knew nothing of Israel and their relation to Jehovah.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain not go
not go
Cf. Num 22:12. (See Scofield "Gen 46:3").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 because they have been blessed
because they have been blessed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "because I have blessed them" (See: Active or Passive)
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Balak
This is the name of a man. See how you translated this in Numbers 22:2.
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