Numbers 22:7

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Related verses

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• Micah 3:11
  Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
• 1 Samuel 9:7–8
  “If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
• Titus 1:11
  …who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
• Numbers 23:23
  For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
• Isaiah 56:11
  Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
• 1 Timothy 6:9–10
  Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Romans 16:18
  For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
• Jude 1:11
  Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
• Numbers 24:1
  And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not seek omens as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
• 2 Peter 2:15
  They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
• Ezekiel 13:19
  You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.

People

Balaam: A prophet hired to curse Israel but blessed them instead· Balak: King of Moab who hired Balaam to curse Israel

Places

Midian: A nation descended from Abraham; oppressed Israel in the time of the judges· Moab: Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in Jordan

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Ammon, Ammonites· Balaam· Balak· Curse, Cursed· Deuteronomy, Book of· False Prophets· Jannes and Jambres· Midian, Midianite· Moab, Moabites· Moses· Numbers, Book of· Prophets, False· Shittim (Place)· Zippor

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Balaam: Balak Sends For, to Curse Israel· Balak: Tries to Bribe Balaam to Curse Israel· Divination: Effected Through: A Lucrative Employment· Government: Mosaic: Among the Midianites and Moabites· Midianites with the Moabites: Sent for Balaam to Curse Israel· Prayer: Imprecatory