Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
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Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
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Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 22:16
and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:18
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”
Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 31:55
Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
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Genesis 19:37
The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.
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Genesis 19:38
The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
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Numbers 21:21
Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Numbers 22:5
He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.
Numbers 22:7
The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
Numbers 22:8
He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
Numbers 22:9
God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”
Numbers 22:10
Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,
Numbers 24:25
Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Joshua 13:22
The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
Judges 11:25
Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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Numbers 22:15
Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
Numbers 22:16
They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
Numbers 22:22
God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
Numbers 22:23
The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.
Numbers 22:28
Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
Numbers 22:36
When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
Numbers 24:14
Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
Numbers 25:17
“Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
1 John 3:12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
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Numbers 23:6
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Numbers 23:17
He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
Numbers 23:24
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 23:25
Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
Numbers 24:2
Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.
Numbers 24:5
How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel!
Numbers 24:6
As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
Numbers 24:7
Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.
Numbers 24:15
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Numbers 24:16
he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
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Numbers 22:35
Yahweh’s angel said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but you shall only speak the word that I shall speak to you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers 23:7
He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Numbers 23:12
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:16
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
Numbers 23:21
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
Numbers 23:22
God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Numbers 23:23
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
Numbers 23:26
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
Numbers 24:8
God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
Numbers 24:11
Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
Numbers 24:12
Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
Numbers 24:13
‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
Numbers 24:18
Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
Numbers 24:19
Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
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Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 10:15
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
Deuteronomy 33:29
You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
Psalms 144:15
Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
Psalms 146:5
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God,
Isaiah 43:4
Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
Ezekiel 16:8
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
Romans 11:28
Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
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Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 27:13
These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
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Deuteronomy 22:6
If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.
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Deuteronomy 23:2
A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.
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Judges 5:12
‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
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Ruth 1:4
They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years.
1 Kings 11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,
1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:6
Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint.
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1 Samuel 14:29
Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
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2 Kings 12:19
Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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2 Kings 12:20
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
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1 Chronicles 19:2
David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
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2 Samuel 10:2
David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 4:4
“Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
Nehemiah 4:5
Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
Nehemiah 4:6
So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
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Nehemiah 13:19
It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
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Deuteronomy 22:30
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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Psalms 95:2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Psalms 105:2
Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
Isaiah 21:14
They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
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Psalms 148:8
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,
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Exodus 12:36
Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
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Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 46:10
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
Acts 13:27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
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Isaiah 34:2
For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
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Isaiah 56:3
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
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Ezekiel 35:5
“ ‘ “Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
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Hosea 8:4
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
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Deuteronomy 7:10
and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy 7:11
You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them.
Deuteronomy 15:16
It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
Deuteronomy 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 33:5
He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
Hosea 11:1
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:3
Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by their arms, but they didn’t know that I healed them.
Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
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Acts 1:16
“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
Acts 1:17
For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Acts 1:18
Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out.
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Romans 4:6
Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Romans 4:7
“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
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John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
John 15:9
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.
Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
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Deuteronomy 11:29
It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
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Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
1 Peter 4:18
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
1 Peter 4:19
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
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1 Samuel 17:43
The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Isaiah 27:7
Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
1 Peter 4:17
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
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