The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Deu 1:5Deu 3:8Deu 34:1Deu 34:8Jos 3:16Num 21:20Num 32:19Num 33:48-50 Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. Jdg 11:25Num 21:20-35Num 21:3 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. Exo 15:15Isa 23:5Deu 2:25Jos 2:10-11Jos 2:24Jos 9:24Psa 53:5 Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” Num 25:15-18Num 31:8Jdg 11:25Jer 48:38Jos 13:21-22Num 22:2Num 22:7Num 24:17
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. He 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. Deu 23:4Jos 24:9Mic 6:5Jud 1:11Jos 13:22Num 23:72Pe 2:15-16Exo 1:7-10 Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” Num 24:9Num 23:7-81Ki 22:131Ki 22:61Ki 22:81Sa 17:43Act 16:16Act 8:9-10
The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak. 1Sa 9:7-8Mic 3:111Ti 6:9-102Pe 2:15Ezk 13:19Isa 56:11Jud 1:11Num 23:23
He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. Ezk 33:31Jer 12:2Num 12:6Num 22:19-20Num 23:12
God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?” Gen 20:3Num 22:202Ki 20:14-15Dan 4:31-32Exo 4:2Gen 16:8Gen 3:9-11Gen 4:9
Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me, ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.” Deu 23:5Eph 1:3Rom 11:29Gen 12:2Num 23:19-20Deu 33:29Rom 4:6-7Gen 22:16-18
Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with you.” Deu 23:5Num 22:14
The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.” Num 22:13Num 22:37
Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they. Act 10:7-8Num 22:7-8 They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me, for 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.’” Num 24:11Deu 16:9Est 5:11Est 7:9Mat 14:7Mat 16:26Mat 4:8-9Num 22:37
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. Num 24:131Ki 22:142Ch 18:13Num 23:26Num 22:38Act 8:20Dan 5:17Tit 1:16 Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else the LORD will speak to me.” Jud 1:111Ti 6:9-102Pe 2:152Pe 2:3Num 22:7-8
God 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.” Num 23:12Num 23:26Num 24:13Num 22:352Th 2:9-121Sa 12:12-191Sa 8:5-9Ezk 14:2-5
Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. Pro 1:15-16 God’s anger burned because he went; and the LORD’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. Exo 4:24Lam 2:4Num 22:32Exo 23:202Ki 10:20Hos 1:4Hos 12:4-5Num 22:35 The donkey saw the LORD’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path. Jud 1:111Co 1:27-292Pe 2:161Ch 21:162Ki 6:17Act 22:9Dan 10:7Jer 8:7 Then the LORD’s angel stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side. The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. He struck her again. Isa 47:12Job 5:13-15
The LORD’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. Hos 2:6Isa 26:11 The donkey saw the LORD’s angel, and she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger burned, and he struck the donkey with his staff. Pro 14:16Jas 1:19Pro 27:3-4
The LORD 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?” 2Pe 2:16Exo 4:11Luk 1:371Co 1:19Rom 8:22
Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.” Pro 12:10Mat 15:19Pro 12:16Ecc 9:3
The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long until today? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” 2Pe 2:161Co 1:27-28
He said, “No.”
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the LORD’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. Gen 21:19Luk 24:311Ch 21:16Act 26:18Luk 24:16Num 24:16Num 24:4Exo 34:8 The LORD’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me. Act 13:10Num 22:22Pro 28:18Pro 14:2Pro 28:62Pe 2:14-15Deu 23:4Deu 25:4 The donkey saw me, and turned away before me these three times. Unless she had turned away from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.” 1Ki 13:24-28Num 14:37Num 16:33-35
Balaam said to the LORD’s angel, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.” 1Sa 15:24Job 34:31-322Sa 12:131Sa 15:301Sa 26:211Ch 21:71Sa 24:17Exo 10:16-17
The LORD’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall speak to you.” 2Th 2:9-12Isa 37:26-29Num 22:20-21Psa 81:12
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. Act 28:15Isa 16:2Jer 48:20Deu 2:24Deu 3:8Exo 18:7Gen 14:17Gen 18:2 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?” Num 24:11Jhn 5:44Luk 4:6Mat 4:8-9Num 22:16-17Psa 75:6
Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.” Num 22:18Pro 19:21Num 23:16Num 23:261Ki 22:142Ch 18:13Isa 44:25Isa 46:10
Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth. Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him. Num 23:14Pro 1:16Gen 31:54Num 23:2Num 23:30 In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people. Num 23:132Ch 11:15Deu 12:2Jer 48:35Num 21:28Num 25:2-3