Numbers 23:5

New King James Version

Then the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

Isaiah 59:21

“As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”

Isaiah 51:16

And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’ ”

Numbers 23:16

Then the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

John 11:51

Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Luke 12:12

For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:1

The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Numbers 22:35

Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 22:20

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men come to call you, rise and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you—that you shall do.”

Exodus 4:15

Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.

Numbers 23:4

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

Numbers 23:6

So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.