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Numbers 23

King James Version · 30 verses · 524 cross-references linking it to 279 other chapters

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  1. 1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.26 cross-references: Numbers 23:29, Proverbs 15:8, Jude 1:11, 1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Chronicles 15:26
  2. 2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.4 cross-references: Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30
  3. 3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.17 cross-references: Numbers 23:15, Genesis 22:2, Numbers 24:1, Genesis 22:7–8, Numbers 22:31–35
  4. 4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.14 cross-references: Numbers 23:16, Luke 18:12, Ephesians 2:9, John 16:2, Isaiah 58:3–4
  5. 5And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.20 cross-references: Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Isaiah 59:21, Isaiah 51:16, Numbers 23:16
  6. 6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
  7. 7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.51 cross-references: Numbers 23:18, Numbers 22:5–6, Numbers 24:3, Deuteronomy 23:4, Numbers 24:15
  8. 8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?11 cross-references: Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:20, Isaiah 44:25, Numbers 22:12, Isaiah 47:12–13
  9. 9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.28 cross-references: Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 32:8, Exodus 33:16, Ezra 9:2, Esther 3:8
  10. 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!30 cross-references: Psalms 37:37, Genesis 13:16, Psalms 116:15, Revelation 14:13, 2 Corinthians 5:1
  11. 11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.9 cross-references: Nehemiah 13:2, Numbers 24:10, Psalms 109:17–20, Numbers 22:17, Numbers 23:7–8
  12. 12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?13 cross-references: Numbers 22:38, Numbers 23:26, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 24:13, Numbers 22:20
  13. 13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.11 cross-references: Psalms 109:17, James 3:9–10, Joshua 24:9, 1 Kings 20:23, 1 Kings 20:28
  14. 14And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.18 cross-references: Numbers 23:1–2, Isaiah 46:6, Isaiah 1:10–11, Hosea 12:11, Deuteronomy 3:27
  15. 15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.6 cross-references: Numbers 23:3, Numbers 22:8
  16. 16And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.10 cross-references: Numbers 23:5, Numbers 22:35, Numbers 24:1
  17. 17And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?3 cross-references: Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17, 1 Samuel 3:17
  18. 18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:8 cross-references: Judges 3:20
  19. 19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?76 cross-references: 1 Samuel 15:29, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 6:18, Titus 1:2
  20. 20Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.17 cross-references: John 10:27–29, Numbers 22:12, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 22:17, Isaiah 43:13
  21. 21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.50 cross-references: Psalms 23:4, Matthew 1:23, Jeremiah 50:20, Romans 4:7–8, Exodus 29:45–46
  22. 22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.19 cross-references: Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9–11, Psalms 22:21, Exodus 20:2
  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 hath God wrought!52 cross-references: Luke 10:18–19, Joshua 13:22, Matthew 12:27, Psalms 64:9, Romans 16:20
  24. 24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.29 cross-references: Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:27, Zechariah 12:6, Numbers 24:17, Numbers 24:8–9
  25. 25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.2 cross-references: Psalms 2:1–3
  26. 26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do?14 cross-references: Acts 5:29, Numbers 22:18, 2 Chronicles 18:13, Acts 4:19–20, Numbers 22:38
  27. 27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.11 cross-references: Romans 11:29, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 46:10–11, Numbers 23:13, Proverbs 19:21
  28. 28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.6 cross-references: Numbers 21:20, Psalms 106:28
  29. 29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.8 cross-references: Numbers 23:1–2
  30. 30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

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People in Numbers 23

Balak, God, Balaam, Jacob, Moab, Zippor

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Moab, Aram, Zophim, Pisgah, Egypt, Peor

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