⇧  1 2 3 4 1-4 5

Numbers 24:11
Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.

--------------------

Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

Genesis 41:40
You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.

Genesis 41:41
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:44
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

2 Samuel 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

Job 1:3
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

-----

Numbers 22:18
But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God.

Numbers 22:38
Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but have I power to say anything? Only what God puts into my mouth may I say.

Numbers 22:41
And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

Numbers 23:11
Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

Numbers 23:20
See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.

Numbers 23:25
Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.

Numbers 23:26
But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?

Numbers 24:1
Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,

Numbers 24:9
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

Deuteronomy 23:5
But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.

Judges 7:14
And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.

Job 1:10
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

-----

Numbers 24:25
Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.

Numbers 25:1
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

Numbers 31:16
It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

Joshua 13:22
And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

-----

Deuteronomy 16:9
Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.

Esther 7:9
Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

-----

Judges 13:17
Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?

1 Samuel 9:8
But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.

1 Kings 13:7
And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.

1 Kings 22:3
And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.

2 Kings 5:5
So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

2 Kings 8:8
Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God and get directions from the Lord by him, saying, Am I going to get better from my disease?

2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?

Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,

Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.

-----

Nehemiah 13:29
Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

-----

Esther 5:11
And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

-----

Matthew 16:26
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

Hebrews 11:24
By faith Moses, when he became a man, had no desire to be named the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Hebrews 11:25
Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

Hebrews 11:26
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

-----

Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

Matthew 19:30
But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

-----

Psalms 75:6
For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;

Luke 4:6
And the Evil One said, I will give you authority over all these, and the glory of them, for it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone at my pleasure.

-----

1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

-----

1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Public Domain