And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Yaakov, and come, defy Yisrael.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Bilam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
Another parable spake he unto them; The Kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Plishtim that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Yisrael were gone away:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
Then said David to the Plishti, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of YY -TZvaot, the Elohim of the armies of Yisrael, whom thou hast defied.
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Plishti shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living Elohim.
Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.