Joshua 24:10

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Joshua 24:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.

9 Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

10 but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

11 After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

12 I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

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Numbers 22:11

‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”

Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

Numbers 22:18

But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

Numbers 22:19

So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

Numbers 22:35

But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 23:3

“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

Numbers 23:4

and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

Numbers 23:5

Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”

Numbers 23:6

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.

Numbers 23:7

And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

Numbers 23:8

How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

Numbers 23:9

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

Numbers 23:11

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”

Numbers 23:12

But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

Numbers 23:16

And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”

Numbers 23:17

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.

Numbers 23:18

Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Numbers 23:20

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Numbers 23:21

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

Numbers 23:22

God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

Numbers 23:23

For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

Numbers 23:24

Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 23:25

Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

Numbers 24:5

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

Numbers 24:6

They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

Numbers 24:7

Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

Numbers 24:8

God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.

Numbers 24:9

He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

Numbers 24:10

Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.