Numbers 23:5

Good News Translation

The Lord told Balaam what to say and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

Cross References

Exodus 4:15

You can speak to him and tell him what to say. I will help both of you to speak, and I will tell you both what to do.

Proverbs 16:1

We may make our plans, but God has the last word.

Proverbs 16:9

You may make your plans, but God directs your actions.

Isaiah 51:16

I stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations; I say to Jerusalem, ‘You are my people! I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand.’”

Isaiah 59:21

And I make a covenant with you: I have given you my power and my teachings to be yours forever, and from now on you are to obey me and teach your children and your descendants to obey me for all time to come.”

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, “Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said, “If these men have come to ask you to go with them, get ready and go, but do only what I tell you.”

Numbers 22:35

But the angel said, “Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say.” So Balaam went on with them.

Numbers 23:16

The Lord met Balaam, told him what to say, and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

Numbers 23:4

and God met him. Balaam said to him, “I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.”

Numbers 23:6

So he went back and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering with all the leaders of Moab.

Luke 12:12

For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

John 11:51

Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.