Numbers 23:4 Cross References - ISV

⁴ where the LORD met with Balaam, who told him, “I’ve prepared seven altars and offered bulls and rams on an altar.”

⁹ God Forbids Balaam to CooperateGod visited Balaam and asked him, “Who are these men with you?”

²⁰ God came to visit Balaam that same night and told him, “If the men come to call on you, get up and go with them, but be sure to do only what I tell you to do.”

¹ Balaam’s First SacrificeBalaam told Balak, “Build for me here seven altars and prepare here for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

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

³ ‘Why have we fasted,’ they ask, ‘but you do not see? ‘Why have we humbled ourselves,’ they ask, ‘but you take no notice?’”
Fasting that God Approves “Look! On your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers. ⁴ “Look! You fast only for quarreling, and for fighting, and for hitting with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice heard on high.

¹² ‘These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we’ve been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!’

¹² I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of my entire income.’

² You’ll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he’s serving God.

²⁷ What, then, is there to boast about? That has been eliminated. On what principle? On that of actions? No, but on the principle of faith.

⁹ and not the result of actions, to put a stop to all boasting.