Numbers 24:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times to seek omens, rather he turned his attention toward the wilderness.

Cross References

Numbers 22:13

So Balaam got up in the morning and said to Balak’s representatives, “Go back to your land, for the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”

Numbers 22:7

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian left with the fees for divination in their hands; and they came to Balaam and repeated Balak’s words to him.

Numbers 23:15

Then he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the Lord over there.”

Numbers 23:20

“Behold, I have received a command to bless; When He has blessed, I cannot revoke it.

Numbers 23:23

“For there is no magic curse against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel; At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to Israel, what God has done!

Numbers 23:28

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.

Numbers 23:3

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.

Numbers 23:30

Balak did just as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 31:16

Behold, they caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to be unfaithful to the Lord in the matter of Peor, so that the plague took place among the congregation of the Lord!

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

1 Samuel 24:20

Now, behold, I know that you will certainly be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul set out and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, taking with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 26:25

Then Saul said to David, “Blessed are you, my son David; you will both accomplish much and assuredly prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.