Numbers 22:37 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

And Balak said unto Ba´laam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Balak said to Balaam, Did I not [earnestly] send to you to ask you [to come] to me? Why did you not come? Am not I able to promote you to honor?

American Standard Version (1901)

And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

Common English Bible

Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I send urgently and summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to Balaam: "I sent messengers to call you. Why did you not come to me immediately? Was it because I am not able to pay the cost for your arrival?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee. Why didst thou not come immediately to me? Was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?

Numbers 22:37 Cross References

Psalm 75:6

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Numbers 22:36

And when Balak heard that Ba´laam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast.

Numbers 22:38

And Ba´laam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Numbers 24:11

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor.

Luke 4:6

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will, I give it.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?