Numbers 22:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? I have come out as an adversary because your way is perverse before me.

Cross References

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

Psalm 147:9

He gives to the animals their food and to the young ravens when they cry.

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

Proverbs 14:2

Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord, but one who is devious in conduct despises him.

Proverbs 16:2

All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 28:18

One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

Proverbs 28:6

Better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.

Jonah 4:11

And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”

Micah 6:5

O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”

Numbers 22:20

That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but do only what I tell you to do.”

Numbers 22:22

God’s anger was kindled because he was going, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the road as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Numbers 22:28

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck 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 from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let it live.”

Numbers 22:35

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

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

Deuteronomy 23:4

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.

Deuteronomy 25:4

“You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.