Micah 6:5

God urges Israel to remember how He turned Balak and Balaam's curses into blessing on the journey from Shittim to Gilgal. It calls them to recognize the LORD's saving righteousness.

Cross-references · 31

• Josh 5:9–10Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt off of you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
• Num 25:1Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
• Judg 5:11Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.
• 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
• Deut 16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
• Josh 4:19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
• Josh 24:9–10Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
• Jude 1:11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
• Deut 8:18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
• Ps 143:11Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
• Deut 9:7Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Num 22:1–25The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
• Num 22:41In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.
• Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Num 31:8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
• Num 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
• Num 23:27Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
• Ps 71:15–16My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
• Ps 103:1–2By David. Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!
• Deut 23:4–5because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
• 1 Sam 12:7Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
• Ps 111:4He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
• Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
• Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• Num 33:49They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
• Num 23:13–14Balak 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.”
• Ps 36:10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
• Josh 10:42–43Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

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