Numbers 23:7

Balaam begins his first oracle, recalling that Balak summoned him from Aram to curse Jacob. He states the commission he was hired to fulfill.

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• Num 24:3And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
• Num 22:5–6He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
• Num 23:18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
• Deut 23:4Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
• Mic 2:4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
• Num 24:15And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
• Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
• Num 24:23And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
• Job 29:1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
• 1 Sam 17:45Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
• 2 Sam 23:9And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
• Matt 13:33Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
• Job 27:1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
• Prov 26:2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
• Matt 13:35That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
• Mark 12:12And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
• 1 Sam 17:36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• Num 22:17For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
• 1 Sam 17:10And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
• Num 24:21And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
• Ezek 20:49Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
• Hab 2:6Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
• Gen 10:22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
• 1 Sam 17:25–26And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.
• Gen 28:2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
• Num 22:11Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
• Ezek 17:2Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
• 2 Sam 21:21And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother of David slew him.
• Gen 28:7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

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