Numbers 22:17 Cross References - Matthew

¹⁷ for I wyll greately promote the vnto greate honour. and wyl do whatsoeuer thou sayeste vnto me, come therefore I praye the curse me thys peole.

⁶ Come nowe a feloweshyp and curse me thys people. For they are to myghty for me, so peraduenture I might be able to smite them & to dryue them out of the Land. For I wot that whom thou blessest shalbe blessed, and whom thou cursest shalbe cursed.

³⁷ And Balac sayd vnto Balam: did I not sende for the, to call the? wherfore camest thou not vnto me? thinkest thou that I am not able to promote the vnto honour.

² And Balac dyd as Balam said. And Balac and Balam offered on euery alter a bullock and a ram. ³ And Balam sayd vnto Balac: stande by the Sacrifyce whyle I go to wete whether the Lorde wil come and mete me, & whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyl tel the, & he went forthewyth.

²⁹ And Balam sayed vnto Balac: make me here .vij. altares, and prepare me here .vij. bullockes and .vij. rammes. ³⁰ And Balac dyd as Balam had sayed, and offered a bullocke and a ram on euery alter.

¹¹ and now gette the quyckly vnto thy place. I thought that I would promote the vnto honour, but the Lorde hath kept the backe from worshyp.

⁹ Then reken the .vij. wekes & begyn to reken the .vij. wekes when the sickle beginneth in the corne,

¹¹ & tolde them of the glory of hys ryches, & the multitude of hys chyldren all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and howe that he was taken aboue the princes and seruauntes of the kynge.

⁹ And Harbonah one of the chamberlaynes that stode before the kynge, sayde: Behold, there standeth a galowes in Hamans house fyfty cubytes hye, which he had made for Mardocheus, that spake good for the king. The Kynge saide: hange him theron.

⁸ The deuil toke him vp again & ledde him into an exceding hye mountayne, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, & al the glory of them, ⁹ & said to him: al these wyl I geue the, if thou wilt fall doune & worshyppe me.

⁷ Wherefore he promysed with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde axe.

²⁶ What shall it proffet a man though he shoulde wynne al the whole world if he loose hys awne soule? Or els what shall a man geue to redeme his soule agayne withall?