Numbers 22:12

God flatly forbids Balaam to go or to curse Israel, declaring that they are blessed. This is the decisive word of the chapter.

Cross-references · 17

• Deut 23:5Nevertheless 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.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Rom 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
• Num 23:19–20God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the 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?
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Deut 33:29You 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.”
• Rom 4:6–7Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
• Mic 6:5My 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.”
• Num 22:19–20Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.”
• Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
• Gen 22:16–18and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
• Num 23:23Surely 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!’
• Matt 27:19While 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.”
• Job 33:15–17In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
• Ps 144:15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
• Num 23:13–15Balak 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.”
• Num 23:3Balaam 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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