Numbers 22:12

Modern English Version

God said to Balaam, “You will not go with them. You will not curse the people because they are blessed.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

2 Chronicles 31:10

Azariah the chief priest from the house of Zadok said, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, there has been plenty of food and a large amount left over. For the Lord has blessed His people, and this great abundance is left over.”

Psalm 144:15

Blessed are the people who are in such a state; blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

Psalm 146:5

Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Isaiah 61:9

Their descendants shall be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them shall acknowledge them because they are the descendants whom the Lord has blessed.

Micah 6:5

O My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and remember what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

Numbers 22:11

‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt who covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to battle them and drive them out.’ ”

Numbers 22:13

So Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land because the Lord refuses to let me to go with you.”

Numbers 22:6

And now, please come curse this people for me because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I will prevail, and we will defeat them, and I will drive them out of the land because I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:23

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

Numbers 23:3

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a high place.

Numbers 23:8

How will I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how will I defy whom the Lord has not defied?

Numbers 24:9

He crouches, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who will stir him up? “Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.”

Matthew 27:19

When he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man, for I have suffered much today in a dream on account of Him.”

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Deuteronomy 2:7

“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands. He knows your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”

Deuteronomy 23:5

Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. Instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing on you because the Lord your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 28:6

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, who is the sword of your majesty! Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread upon their high places.

Deuteronomy 7:14

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.