Numbers 23:27

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Balak said to Balaam, “Come on, let's try another place. Perhaps God will let you curse Israel from there.”

Cross References

Job 23:13

But he alone is God, and who can oppose him? God does as he pleases,

Proverbs 19:21

We may make a lot of plans, but the LORD will do what he has decided.

Proverbs 21:30

No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the LORD.

Isaiah 14:27

I, the LORD All-Powerful, have made these plans. No one can stop me now!

Malachi 3:6

Descendants of Jacob, I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I never change. That's why you haven't been wiped out,

Numbers 22:6

They are too powerful for us to defeat, so would you come and place a curse on them? Perhaps then we can drive them out. I know that anyone you bless will be successful, but anyone you curse will fail.

Numbers 23:13

Balak said to Balaam, “Let's go somewhere else. Perhaps if you see a smaller part of the Israelites, you will be able to curse them for me.”

Numbers 23:26

“I've already told you,” Balaam answered. “I will say only what the LORD tells me.”

Numbers 23:28

So he took Balaam to Mount Peor overlooking the desert north of the Dead Sea.

Romans 11:29

God doesn't take back the gifts he has given or forget about the people he has chosen.