Micah 6:5 Cross References - CLV

⁵ My people, remember, I pray, what Balak, king of Moab, counseled, and what Balaam, son of Beor, answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that you may know the righteousness of Yahweh."

¹ Then the sons of Israel journeyed and encamped in the plains of Moab along the Jordan across from Jericho. ² Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorite, ³ and Moab shrank in view of the people exceedingly, for they were numerous. Since Moab was irritated in view of the sons of Israel, ⁴ Moab said to the elders of Midian:Now this assembly shall lick up all around us like a bull licks up the green grass of the field. So Balak son of Zippor who was king of Moab at that time ⁵ sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor (which is on the Stream in the land of the sons of his people) to call for him, saying:Behold, a people has come forth from Egypt. Behold, they cover the eye of the land, and they are dwelling at my forefront. ⁶ Now come, I pray, curse this people for me, for they are more substantial than I. Perhaps I shall prevail, so that we may smite them and I may drive them out from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is being blessed and whomever you curse is accursed. ⁷ The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with the pay for divinations in their hands. They came to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak. ⁸ He said to them:Lodge here for the night, and I will bring back word to you just as Yahweh shall speak to me. So the chiefs of Moab dwelt with Balaam. ⁹ Now Elohim came to Balaam and said:Who are these men with you? ¹⁰ And Balaam said to the One, Elohim:Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent them to me, saying. ¹¹ Behold, the people coming forth from Egypt are covering the eye of the land! Now go, revile him for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight him, and I will drive him out. ¹² Then Elohim said to Balaam:You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for it is blessed. ¹³ Balaam rose in the morning and said to the chiefs of Balak:Go back to your land, for Yahweh has refused to allow me to go with you. ¹⁴ So the chiefs of Moab rose and came to Balak and said:Balaam refused to go with us. ¹⁵ Balak continued further to send other chiefs, more numerous and illustrious than these. ¹⁶ They came to Balaam and said to him:Thus says Balak son of Zippor, Do not, I pray, be withheld from coming to me, ¹⁷ for I shall glorify, yea glorify you exceedingly, and all that you may say to me I shall do. So come now I pray, revile this people for me. ¹⁸ Yet Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak:If Balak were giving to me the fullness of his house in silver and gold I could not cross the bidding of Yahweh my Elohim to do what is small or great. ¹⁹ Yet now dwell, I pray, you too, in this place, for the night; then I shall know what Yahweh shall continue to speak with me. ²⁰ Elohim came to Balaam at night and said to him:Since the men have come to call for you, rise, go with them. Yet only the word that I speak to you, only it shall you use. ²¹ Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his jenny and went with the chiefs of Moab. ²² Elohim's anger grew hot because he was going. So a messenger of Yahweh stationed himself in the road to be adverse to him. Now he was riding on his jenny, and his two lads were with him. ²³ The jenny saw the messenger of Yahweh stationed in the road with his drawn sword in his hand, so the jenny turned aside from the road and went into a field. Balaam smote the jenny to turn her aside into the road. ²⁴ Then the messenger of Yahweh stood in a lane between the vineyards with a stone dike on this side and a stone dike on that side. ²⁵ The jenny saw the messenger of Yahweh and pressed herself close to the sidewall. When she pressed Balaam's foot close to the sidewall he continued to smite her.

⁴¹ It came to be in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the fane heights of Baal that he might see from there the outmost part of the people.

¹³ Balak said to him:Go, I pray, with me to another place from where you may see it. Only its outmost part shall you see; all of it you shall not see. Revile it for me from there. ¹⁴ So he took him to the field of the Watchmen, to the summit of the Pisgah ridge. He built seven altars and offered up a young bull and a ram on each altar.

²⁷ Balak said to Balaam:Come now, I pray. I shall take you to another place; perhaps it may be upright in the eyes of the One, Elohim, that you revile him for me from there.

¹ While Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people started to commit prostitution with the daughters of Moab,

⁸ As for the kings of Midian, they killed them along with their men wounded to death:Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian. Also Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword.

¹⁶ Behold, they, by the word of Balaam, came to be for the sons of Israel the reason for a withdrawal from and an offense against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the stroke came to be in the congregation of Yahweh.

⁴⁹ They encamped along the Jordan from Beth-Jesimoth as far as Abel-Shittim in the plains of Moab.

² And remember all the way which Yahweh your Elohim caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, that He might make you humble, to probe you so as to know what is in your heart, whether or not you shall observe His instructions.

¹⁸ Yet you will remember Yahweh your Elohim, for He is the One giving to you the vigor to make this estate, that He may confirm His covenant that He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as in this day.

⁷ Remember, do not forget that you provoked Yahweh your Elohim to wrath in the wilderness. From the day in which you went forth from the country of Egypt until you came to this place, you were rebellious against Yahweh.

³ You shall not eat anything leavened with it. Seven days shall you eat unleavened cakes with it, the bread of humiliation (for in nervous haste you went forth from the country of Egypt), that you may remember the day of your going forth from the country of Egypt all the days of your life.

⁴ on the score that they did not succor you with bread and with water along the main road when you came forth from Egypt and that they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor, Aram-naharayim, to maledict you. ⁵ But Yahweh your Elohim would not hearken to Balaam. And Yahweh your Elohim turned the malediction into a blessing for you, for Yahweh your Elohim loves you.

¹⁹ And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;"

⁹ and Yahweh said unto Joshua, `To-day I have rolled the reproach of Egypt from off you;' and [one] calls the name of that place Gilgal unto this day. ¹⁰ And the sons of Israel encamp in Gilgal, and make the passover on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho;"

⁴² and all these kings and their land has Joshua captured [at] one time, for Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, is fighting for Israel. ⁴³ and Joshua turns back, and all Israel with him, unto the camp at Gilgal.

⁹ `And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, rises and fights against Israel, and sends and calls for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you, ¹⁰ and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he does greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand.

¹¹ By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water, There they give out righteous acts of Yahweh, Righteous acts of His villages in Israel, Then ruled in the gates have the people of Yahweh.

⁷ and, now, station yourselves, and I judge you before Yahweh, with all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which He did with you, and with your fathers.

¹⁰ Protract Your benignity to those knowing You, And Your righteousness to the upright of heart."

¹⁵ My mouth, it shall recount Your righteousness, The entire day, Your salvation, for I do not know their number." ¹⁶ I shall come with praise of the masterful deeds of my Lord; O Yahweh, I shall mention Your righteousness, Yours alone."

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O Elohim, reaches unto the height, You Who have done great things; O Elohim, Who is like You?

¹ {Davidic{ Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And all within me, bless His holy Name!" ² Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And do not forget any of His well-dealings,

⁴ He has made His marvelous works memorable; Gracious and compassionate is Yahweh.

¹¹ For Your Name's sake, O Yahweh, may You revive me; In Your righteousness, may You bring my soul forth from distress."

²⁵ (Whom God purposed for a Propitiatory shelter, through faith in His blood, for a display of His righteousness because of the passing over of the penalties of sins which occurred before in the forbearance of God), ²⁶ toward the display of His righteousness in the current era, for Him to be just and a Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus."

¹¹ Wherefore, remember that once you, the nations in flesh - who are termed 'Uncircumcision' by those termed 'Circumcision,' in flesh, made by hands -"

¹⁵ Leaving the straight path, they were led astray, following out the path of Balaam of Beor, who loves the wages of injustice,

⁹ If we should be avowing our sins, He is faithful and just that He may be pardoning us our sins and should be cleansing us from all injustice."

¹¹ Woe to them! for they went in the way of Cain, and in the deception of Balaam's wages were they poured out, and in the contradiction of Korah they perished."

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, that you have there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to be eating idol sacrifices, and to commit prostitution."