Numbers 22:12
But God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed."
Cross References
Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Numbers 22:6
So please come now and put a curse on these people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed."

Numbers 22:11
Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.'"

Numbers 22:13
So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak's princes, "Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you."

Numbers 23:8
How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

Numbers 23:20
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Numbers 24:9
He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.

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Balaam, Thou shalt

Numbers 22:20
That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you."

Job 33:15-17
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds, . . .

Matthew 27:19
While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him."

thou shalt not curse

Numbers 22:19
So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me."

Numbers 23:3, 13-15, 19, 23
"Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone, " Balaam said to Balak. "Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you." So Balaam went off to a barren height, . . .

Micah 6:5
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Acacia Grove to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD."

for they

Numbers 23:20
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 22:16-18
saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, . . .

Deuteronomy 23:5
Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places."

Psalm 144:15
Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

Psalm 146:5
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Romans 4:6, 7
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: . . .

Romans 11:29
For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable.

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

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