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.

Cross-references · 29

• Num 24:3He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
• Num 22:5–6He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
• Num 23:18He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
• 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.
• Mic 2:4In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’”
• Num 24:15He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
• Ps 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
• Num 24:23He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
• Job 29:1Job again took up his parable, and said,
• 1 Sam 17:45Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
• 2 Sam 23:9After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.
• Matt 13:33He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
• Job 27:1Job again took up his parable, and said,
• Prov 26:2Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
• Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
• Mark 12:12They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
• 1 Sam 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
• Num 22:17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”
• 1 Sam 17:10The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
• Num 24:21He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
• Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’”
• Hab 2:6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
• Gen 10:22The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
• 1 Sam 17:25–26The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
• Gen 28:2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
• Num 22:11‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
• Ezek 17:2“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
• 2 Sam 21:21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
• Gen 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

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