Numbers 22:32

The angel rebukes Balaam for beating the donkey and reveals that he came to oppose Balaam because his way is perverse. The animal, not the man, perceived the danger rightly.

Cross-references · 17

• Num 22:22God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
• Prov 28:18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
• Acts 13:10and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• Prov 14:2He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
• Prov 28:6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
• Num 22:35Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
• Exod 3:2–6Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
• Num 22:20God 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.”
• Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
• Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
• Num 22:28Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
• Ps 145:9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
• Deut 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
• Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
• Deut 23:4because 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.
• 2 Pet 2:14–15having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• 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.”

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