Deuteronomy 23:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:4

when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Nehemiah 13:2

because they did not meet the Israelites with bread and water but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Isaiah 63:9

in all their distress. It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them; in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 49:1

Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad and his people settled in its towns?

Lamentations 1:10

Enemies have stretched out their hands over all her precious things; she has even seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.

Ezekiel 44:9

“Thus says the Lord God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the Lord of hosts after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye.

Numbers 22:17

for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.”

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, denounce Israel!’

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’

Acts 9:4

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

Joshua 24:9

Then King Balak son of Zippor of Moab set out to fight against Israel. He sent and invited Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.

1 Samuel 25:11

Shall I take my bread and my water and the meat that I have butchered for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”