Numbers 23:3

Amplified Bible

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate hill.

Cross References

Genesis 22:13

Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering (ascending sacrifice) instead of his son.

Genesis 22:2

God said, “Take now your son, your only son [of promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

Genesis 8:20

And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every [ceremonially] clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and [other] sacrifices [to offer] to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Leviticus 1:1

The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Numbers 23:12

Balaam answered, “Must I not be obedient and careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I go to meet the Lord over there.”

Numbers 23:2

Balak did just as Balaam had said, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not say to you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’ ”

Numbers 23:4

Now God met Balaam, who said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Numbers 24:1

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as he had done each time before [superstitiously] to seek omens and signs [in the natural world], but he set his face toward the wilderness (desert).

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory [splendor, magnificence, and excellence] of them;

Joshua 24:10

But I would not listen to Balaam. Therefore he had to bless you, so I saved you from Balak’s hand. [Deut 23:5]