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Isaiah 54:17
no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.
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Numbers 22:18-20
But Balaam answered them,“ Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the Lord my God.Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the Lord will tell me.”That night God came to Balaam and said,“ Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.”
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Deuteronomy 23:5
However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.
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Numbers 22:11-12
‘ A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.’”But God said to Balaam,“ Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.”
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Numbers 24:5-10
“ How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel!“ Like valleys they spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by the Lord, like cedars beside the waters.Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water.“ Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.“ God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; with their arrows they pierce them.Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness— who dares to rouse them?“ May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him,“ I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.
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Numbers 23:15-26
Balaam said to Balak,“ Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”The Lord met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said,“ Go back to Balak and give him this word.”So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him,“ What did the Lord say?”Then he spoke his message:“ Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.“ No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox.There is no divination against Jacob, no evil omens against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘ See what God has done!’The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”Then Balak said to Balaam,“ Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”Balaam answered,“ Did I not tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?”
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Numbers 23:3-12
Then Balaam said to Balak,“ Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.God met with him, and Balaam said,“ I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said,“ Go back to Balak and give him this word.”So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.Then Balaam spoke his message:“ Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.‘ Come,’ he said,‘ curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!”Balak said to Balaam,“ What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!”He answered,“ Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
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Numbers 22:35
The angel of the Lord said to Balaam,“ Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.
