Numbers 23:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”

Cross References

Exodus 4:15

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

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

Isaiah 51:16

I have put my words in your mouth and hidden you in the shadow of my hand, stretching out the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth and saying to Zion, “You are my people.”

Isaiah 59:21

And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, “Now I have put my words in your mouth.

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 22:35

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.

Numbers 23:16

The Lord met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”

Numbers 23:4

Then God met Balaam, and Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Numbers 23:6

So he returned to Balak, who was standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab.

Luke 12:12

for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.”

John 11:51

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.