Numbers 23:3

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering in the place of his son.

Genesis 22:2

Then He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Leviticus 1:1

And the Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying:

Numbers 23:12

He answered, “Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

Numbers 23:15

He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings while I meet the Lord over there.”

Numbers 23:2

Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, I must do’?”

Numbers 23:4

God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bull and a ram.”

Numbers 24:1

And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as other times to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur,

Joshua 24:10

but I refused to listen to Balaam. Therefore he blessed you still, and I delivered you out of his hand.