Deuteronomy 23:5

New American Bible - revised edition

because they would not come to meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim, to curse you.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

Nehemiah 13:2

for they did not meet the Israelites with food and water, but they hired Balaam to curse them, though our God turned the curse into a blessing.”

Psalm 73:1

A psalm of Asaph. How good God is to the upright, to those who are pure of heart!

Proverbs 26:2

Like the sparrow in its flitting, like the swallow in its flight, a curse uncalled-for never lands.

Jeremiah 31:3

from afar the Lord appears: With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and saw that you were now old enough for love. So I spread the corner of my cloak over you to cover your nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into covenant with you—oracle of the Lord God—and you became mine.

Micah 6:5

My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him. Recall the passage from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the Lord.

Malachi 1:2

I love you, says the Lord; but you say, “How do you love us?”

Numbers 22:35

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam: “Go with the men; but you may say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 22:5

and he sent messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor on the river, in the land of the Ammonites, to summon him with these words, “A people has come out of Egypt! They have covered up the earth and are settling down opposite me!

Numbers 24:9

Crouching, they lie like a lion, or like a lioness; who will arouse them? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you!

Romans 11:28

In respect to the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but in respect to election, they are beloved because of the patriarchs.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 9:13

As it is written: “I loved Jacob but hated Esau.”

2 Corinthians 4:17

For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Deuteronomy 2:29

as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land the Lord, our God, is about to give us.”

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, lover of the peoples, all the holy ones are at your side; They follow at your heels, carry out your decisions.

Deuteronomy 4:37

For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,

Joshua 24:10

but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his power.