Numbers 22:32

New International Version

The angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.

Cross References

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

Psalm 147:9

He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.

Proverbs 14:2

Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise him are devious in their ways.

Proverbs 16:2

All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.

Proverbs 28:18

The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe, but the one whose ways are perverse will fall into the pit.

Proverbs 28:6

Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.

Jonah 4:11

And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

Micah 6:5

My people, remember what Balak king of Moab plotted and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.”

Numbers 22:22

But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Numbers 22:28

Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”

Numbers 22:33

The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”

Numbers 22:35

The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

Acts 13:10

“You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Deuteronomy 23:4

For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you.

Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.