Numbers 23:7

New King James Version

And he took up his oracle and said: “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’

Cross References

Genesis 10:22

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

Genesis 28:2

Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.

2 Samuel 21:21

So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

2 Samuel 23:9

And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel had retreated.

Job 27:1

Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:

Job 29:1

Job further continued his discourse, and said:

Psalm 49:5

Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

Proverbs 26:2

Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.

Ezekiel 17:2

“Son of man, pose a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They say of me, ‘Does he not speak parables?’ ”

Micah 2:4

In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”

Habakkuk 2:6

“Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’?

Numbers 22:11

‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to overpower them and drive them out.’ ”

Numbers 22:17

for I will certainly honor you greatly, and I will do whatever you say to me. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.’ ”

Numbers 23:18

Then he took up his oracle and said: “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, son of Zippor!

Numbers 23:6

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

Numbers 24:15

So he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;

Numbers 24:21

Then he looked on the Kenites, and he took up his oracle and said: “Firm is your dwelling place, And your nest is set in the rock;

Numbers 24:23

Then he took up his oracle and said: “Alas! Who shall live when God does this?

Numbers 24:3

Then he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,

Matthew 13:33

Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”

Matthew 13:35

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

Mark 12:12

And they sought to lay hands on Him, but feared the multitude, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went away.

Deuteronomy 23:4

because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

1 Samuel 17:10

And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17:45

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.