Numbers 22:38 Cross References - ISV

³⁸ Balaam answered Balak, “Well, I’m here now. I’ve come to you, but I can’t just say anything, can I? I’ll speak only what God puts in my mouth to say.”

¹⁸ Balaam responded to Balak’s entourage by saying, “Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I won’t double-cross the command of the LORD my God in even the slightest way.

¹⁶ Then the LORD met with Balaam and gave a message to him. “Now go back to Balak and speak to him.”

²⁶ “Didn’t I tell you,” Balaam responded to Balak, “that I’ll say whatever the LORD tells me to say?”

¹³ ‘Even if Balak gives me his palace full of silver and gold, I won’t double-cross the command of the LORD and do anything—whether good or evil—on my own initiative, because I’m going to say whatever the LORD says.’

¹⁴ “As the LORD lives,” Micaiah replied, “I’ll say what my God tells me to say.”

¹³ “As the LORD lives,” Micaiah replied, “I’ll say what my God tells me to say.”

¹⁰ The LORD makes void the counsel of nations; he frustrates the plans of peoples.

¹⁰ Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

²¹ Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD’s purposes will prevail.

²⁵ who frustrates the omens of idle talkers, and drives diviners mad, who turns back the wise, and makes their knowledge foolish;

¹⁰ I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, ‘My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.’

¹² “But stand up now with your spells and your many incantations, at which you have labored from your childhood until today,