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Numbers 23:2–19

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2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

5And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

14¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.

16And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

17And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?

18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

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²And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

³And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

⁴And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

⁵And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

⁶And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

⁷And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

⁸How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

⁹For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

¹¹And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

¹²And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

¹³And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

¹⁴¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

¹⁵And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.

¹⁶And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

¹⁷And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?

¹⁸And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

²And Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak & Balaam offered on euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.

³And Balaam said vnto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offring, and I wil goe: peraduenture the LORD will come to meete mee; and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I will tell thee. And ^‖he went to an high place.

⁴And God met Balaam, and he said vnto him, I haue prepared seuen altars, and I haue offered vpon euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.

⁵And the LORD put a word in Balaams mouth, and said, Returne vnto Balak, & thus thou shalt speake.

⁶And he returned vnto him, and loe, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, hee, and all the Princes of Moab.

⁷And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Balak the King of Moab hath brought mee from Aram, out of the mountaines of the East, saying, Come, curse me Iacob, and come, defie Israel.

⁸How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defie, whom the LORD hath not defied?

⁹For from the top of the rockes I see him, and from the hilles I behold him: loe, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not bee reckoned among the nations.

¹⁰Who can count the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let ^†mee die the death of the righteous, & let my last end be like his.

¹¹And Balak saide vnto Balaam, What hast thou done vnto me? I tooke thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

¹²And he answered, and said, Must I not take heede to speake that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

¹³And Balak said vnto him, Come, I pray thee, with me, vnto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

¹⁴¶ And hee brought him into the fielde of Zophim, to the toppe of ^‖Pisgah, and built seuen altars, and offered a bullocke and a ramme on euery altar.

¹⁵And he said vnto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meete the LORD yonder.

¹⁶And the LORD met Balaam, and ^*put a word in his mouth, and saide, Goe againe vnto Balak, and say thus.

¹⁷And when hee came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offring, and the Princes of Moab with him. And Balak said vnto him, What hath the LORD spoken?

¹⁸And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Rise vp Balak, & heare; hearken vnto me, thou sonne of Zippor:

¹⁹God is not a man that he should lie, neither the sonne of man, that hee should repent: hath he said, and shall he not doe it? or, hath hee spoken, and shall he not make it good?

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Numbers 23:2Cross-references · 2 ranked passages

Numbers 23:14Rank 1
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¹⁴¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23:30Rank 2
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³⁰And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 23:3Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

Numbers 23:15Rank 1
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¹⁵And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.
Genesis 22:13Rank 2
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¹³And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:2Rank 3
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²And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis 22:7–8Rank 4
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⁷And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
⁸And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 8:20Rank 5
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²⁰¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Leviticus 1:1Rank 6
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¹AND the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
Numbers 22:31–35Rank 7
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³¹Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
³²And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
³³And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
³⁴And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
³⁵And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers 24:1Rank 8
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¹AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Exodus 18:12Rank 9
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¹²And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
Numbers 22:8–9Rank 10
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⁸And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
⁹And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?

Numbers 23:4Cross-references · 10 ranked passages

Numbers 23:16Rank 1
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¹⁶And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
Ephesians 2:9Rank 2
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⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Luke 18:12Rank 3
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¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Isaiah 58:3–4Rank 4
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³¶ Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
⁴Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
John 16:2Rank 5
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²They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Matthew 20:12Rank 6
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¹²Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Numbers 22:20Rank 7
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²⁰And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers 22:9Rank 8
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⁹And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
Numbers 23:1Rank 9
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¹AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
Romans 3:27Rank 10
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²⁷Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Numbers 23:5Cross-references · 11 ranked passages

Deuteronomy 18:18Rank 1
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¹⁸I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Jeremiah 1:9Rank 2
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⁹Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
Isaiah 51:16Rank 3
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¹⁶And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
Isaiah 59:21Rank 4
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²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Numbers 23:16Rank 5
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¹⁶And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
John 11:51Rank 6
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⁵¹And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
Luke 12:12Rank 7
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¹²For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Numbers 22:20Rank 8
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²⁰And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers 22:35Rank 9
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³⁵And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Proverbs 16:1Rank 10
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¹THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
Proverbs 16:9Rank 11
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⁹A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

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⁴Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Numbers 22:5–6Rank 2
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⁵He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
⁶Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Numbers 23:18Rank 3
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¹⁸And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:3Rank 4
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³And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Job 29:1Rank 5
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¹MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said,
Micah 2:4Rank 6
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⁴¶ In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Numbers 24:15Rank 7
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¹⁵¶ And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers 24:23Rank 8
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²³And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
Psalms 78:2Rank 9
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²I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
1 Samuel 17:45Rank 10
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⁴⁵Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
2 Samuel 23:9Rank 11
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⁹And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
Job 27:1Rank 12
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¹MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said,
Mark 12:12Rank 13
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¹²And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
Matthew 13:33Rank 14
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³³¶ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Matthew 13:35Rank 15
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³⁵That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Proverbs 26:2Rank 16
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²As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
1 Samuel 17:10Rank 17
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¹⁰And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel 17:25–26Rank 18
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²⁵And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.
²⁶And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Samuel 17:36Rank 19
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³⁶Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
2 Samuel 21:21Rank 20
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²¹And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
Ezekiel 17:2Rank 21
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²Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 20:49Rank 22
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⁴⁹Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Genesis 10:22Rank 23
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²²The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 28:2Rank 24
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²Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
Genesis 28:7Rank 25
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⁷And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
Habakkuk 2:6Rank 26
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⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
Numbers 22:11Rank 27
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¹¹Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
Numbers 22:17Rank 28
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¹⁷For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
Numbers 24:21Rank 29
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²¹And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.

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²³Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Isaiah 44:25Rank 2
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²⁵That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Numbers 23:20Rank 3
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²⁰Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 22:12Rank 4
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¹²And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
Isaiah 47:12–13Rank 5
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¹²Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
¹³Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

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Deuteronomy 33:28Rank 1
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²⁸Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
Deuteronomy 32:8Rank 2
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⁸When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Exodus 33:16Rank 3
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¹⁶For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
Esther 3:8Rank 4
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⁸¶ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
Ezra 9:2Rank 5
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²For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
1 Peter 2:9Rank 6
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⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
2 Corinthians 6:17Rank 7
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¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Amos 9:9Rank 8
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⁹For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Ephesians 2:12–14Rank 9
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¹²That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
¹³But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
¹⁴For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Exodus 19:5–6Rank 10
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⁵Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
⁶And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Jeremiah 46:28Rank 11
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²⁸Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Romans 15:8–10Rank 12
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⁸Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
⁹And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
¹⁰And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
Titus 2:14Rank 13
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¹⁴Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Numbers 23:10Cross-references · 19 ranked passages

Genesis 13:16Rank 1
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¹⁶And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Psalms 37:37Rank 2
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³⁷Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 116:15Rank 3
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¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Revelation 14:13Rank 4
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¹³And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
2 Corinthians 5:1Rank 5
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¹FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Timothy 4:6–8Rank 6
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⁶For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
⁷I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
⁸Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Genesis 22:17Rank 7
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¹⁷That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Isaiah 57:1–2Rank 8
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¹THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
²He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
1 Corinthians 15:53–57Rank 9
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⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
⁵⁴So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
⁵⁵O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
⁵⁶The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
⁵⁷But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Genesis 28:14Rank 10
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¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Numbers 2:24Rank 11
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²⁴All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
Numbers 2:31Rank 12
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³¹All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers 2:9Rank 13
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⁹All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
Proverbs 14:32Rank 14
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³²The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
1 Corinthians 3:21–22Rank 15
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²¹Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
²²Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
2 Peter 1:13–15Rank 16
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¹³Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
¹⁴Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
¹⁵Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
Luke 2:29–30Rank 17
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²⁹Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
³⁰For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Numbers 2:16Rank 18
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¹⁶All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.
Philippians 1:21–23Rank 19
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²¹For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
²²But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
²³For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Numbers 23:11Cross-references · 6 ranked passages

Nehemiah 13:2Rank 1
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²Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Numbers 24:10Rank 2
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¹⁰¶ And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
Numbers 22:17Rank 3
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¹⁷For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
Numbers 23:7–8Rank 4
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⁷And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
⁸How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
Psalms 109:17–20Rank 5
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¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
¹⁹Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
²⁰Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Numbers 22:11Rank 6
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¹¹Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.

Numbers 23:12Cross-references · 8 ranked passages

Numbers 22:38Rank 1
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³⁸And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
Numbers 23:20Rank 2
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²⁰Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23:26Rank 3
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²⁶But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do?
Numbers 24:13Rank 4
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¹³If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?
Proverbs 26:25Rank 5
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²⁵When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Numbers 22:20Rank 6
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²⁰And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Romans 16:18Rank 7
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¹⁸For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Titus 1:16Rank 8
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¹⁶They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Numbers 23:13Cross-references · 7 ranked passages

James 3:9–10Rank 1
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⁹Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
¹⁰Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Psalms 109:17Rank 2
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¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
1 Kings 20:23Rank 3
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²³And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
1 Kings 20:28Rank 4
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²⁸¶ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the Lord, Because the Syrians have said, The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Joshua 24:9Rank 5
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⁹Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Micah 6:5Rank 6
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⁵O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.
Numbers 22:41Rank 7
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⁴¹And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.

Numbers 23:14Cross-references · 9 ranked passages

Deuteronomy 3:27Rank 1
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²⁷Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 34:1Rank 2
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¹AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
Deuteronomy 4:49Rank 3
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⁴⁹And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Hosea 12:11Rank 4
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¹¹Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Isaiah 1:10–11Rank 5
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¹⁰¶ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isaiah 46:6Rank 6
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⁶They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Numbers 21:20Rank 7
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²⁰And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers 23:1–2Rank 8
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¹AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
²And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Numbers 23:29Rank 9
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²⁹And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Numbers 23:15Cross-references · 2 ranked passages

Numbers 23:3Rank 1
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³And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
Numbers 22:8Rank 2
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⁸And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

Numbers 23:16Cross-references · 3 ranked passages

Numbers 23:5Rank 1
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⁵And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers 22:35Rank 2
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³⁵And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers 24:1Rank 3
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¹AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Numbers 23:17Cross-references · 3 ranked passages

1 Samuel 3:17Rank 1
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¹⁷And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
Jeremiah 37:17Rank 2
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¹⁷Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Numbers 23:26Rank 3
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²⁶But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do?

Numbers 23:18Cross-references · 1 ranked passage

Judges 3:20Rank 1
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²⁰And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

Numbers 23:19Cross-references · 12 ranked passages

1 Samuel 15:29Rank 1
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²⁹And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
James 1:17Rank 2
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¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Malachi 3:6Rank 3
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⁶For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Hebrews 6:18Rank 4
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¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Titus 1:2Rank 5
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²In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Luke 21:33Rank 6
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³³Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Romans 11:29Rank 7
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²⁹For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Habakkuk 2:3Rank 8
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³For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Psalms 89:35Rank 9
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³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Hosea 11:9Rank 10
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⁹I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
Micah 7:20Rank 11
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²⁰Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
1 Chronicles 17:17Rank 12
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¹⁷And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.

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Numbers 23:2

COMBINED MEANING

spoken

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1. Uttered, said, declared, addressed, or communicated in words. 2. In 'spoken of,' mentioned, described, or referred to. 3. In 'spoken for,' addressed by request or commendation on another's behalf; in a marriage setting, sought as a spouse. 4. In 'spoken against' or 'evil spoken of,' opposed, contradicted, denounced, or reviled.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references