Numbers 23:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: Make haste and detest Israel.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:4

Because they would not meet you with bread and water in the way, when you came out of Egypt: and because they hired against thee Balaam, the son of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to curse thee.

Numbers 24:3

He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up:

Numbers 23:18

But he taking up his parable said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor.

Micah 2:4

In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Psalm 78:2

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

Job 29:1

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

Numbers 24:23

And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

Numbers 24:15

Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam, the son of Beor, hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up hath said:

Mark 12:12

And they sought to lay hands on him, but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way.

Matthew 13:33

Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

Proverbs 26:2

As a bird flying to other places, and a sparrow going here or there: so a curse uttered without cause shall come upon a man.

Job 27:1

Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

2 Samuel 23:9

After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three valiant men that were with David when they defied the Philistines, and they were there gathered together to battle.

Matthew 13:35

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a dark speech concerning him: and it shall be said: Woe to him that heapeth together that which is not his own? how long also doth he load himself with thick clay?

Ezekiel 20:49

And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Ezekiel 17:2

Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

2 Samuel 21:21

And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samaa the brother of David slew him.

1 Samuel 17:45

And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou hast defied.

1 Samuel 17:36

For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:10

And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day. Give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

Numbers 24:21

He saw also the Cinite, and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,

Numbers 22:17

For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt. Come and curse this people.

Numbers 22:11

Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt hath covered the face of the land. Come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.

Genesis 28:7

And that Jacob obeying his parents was gone into Syria:

Genesis 28:2

But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father: and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy uncle.

Genesis 10:22

The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

Numbers 23:6

Returning, he found Balac standing by his burnt-offering, with all the princes of the Moabites.

Psalm 49:5

Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.