Numbers 22:37 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁷ And Balaq said to Bil‛am, “Did I not urgently send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to esteem you?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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)

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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

³⁷ 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 exaltations are neither from the east, Nor from the west nor from the wilderness.

Numbers 22:36

And when Balaq heard that Bil‛am was coming, he went out to meet him at the city of Mo’aḇ, which is on the border at the Arnon, which was in the extremity of the border.

Numbers 22:38

And Bil‛am said to Balaq, “See, I have come to you! Now, am I at all able to say somewhat? The word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I speak.”

Numbers 24:11

And now flee to your place. I said I would greatly esteem you, and see, יהוה has kept you back from esteem.

Luke 4:6

And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I shall give You, and their esteem, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

John 5:44

How are you able to believe, when you are receiving esteem from one another, and the esteem that is from the only Elohim you do not seek?”