Joshua 24:10 Cross References - NSB

¹⁰ »‘But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you, and in this way I rescued you from Balak.

¹¹ »Some people came from Egypt and are spreading out all over the countryside. Now come and curse them for me. Maybe I will be able to fight them and force them out.« ¹² God said to Balaam: »Do not go with them! Do not curse these people. They are blessed!«

¹⁸ Balaam answered Balak’s servants: »Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not disobey the command of Jehovah my God no matter whether the request was important or not. ¹⁹ »Now, please stay here tonight, as the others did, and I will find out what else Jehovah may have to tell me.« ²⁰ That night God came to Balaam and said: »If these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.«

³⁵ But the angel said: »Go on with these men, but say only what I tell you to say.« Thus Balaam went on with them.

³ Then Balaam said to Balak: »Stand here by your burnt offering. I will go to see whether or not Jehovah will meet me. I will tell you what he reveals to me.« So he went alone to the top of a hill. ⁴ God met him and Balaam said to God: »I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.« ⁵ Jehovah told Balaam: »Go back to Balak and give him my message.« ⁶ He went back to Balak and found him standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab. ⁷ Balaam delivered this message: »Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. Come and curse Jacob for me,« he said. ‘Come and condemn Israel. ⁸ »‘How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom Jehovah has not condemned? ⁹ »‘I see them from the top of rocky cliffs. I look at them from the hills. I see a nation that lives by itself! These are people who do not consider themselves to be like other nations. ¹⁰ »‘The descendants of Jacob are like specks of dust. Who can count them or number even one-fourth of the people of Israel? Let me die the death of innocent people. Let my end be like theirs.’« ¹¹ Balak responded to Balaam: »What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them!« ¹² Balaam answered: »I must say what Jehovah tells me to say.«

¹⁵ Then Balaam said to Balak: »Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet with God over there.« ¹⁶ Jehovah met Balaam and told him what to say. He sent him back to Balak to give him his message. ¹⁷ So he returned and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering. He was with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what Jehovah said. ¹⁸ Balaam uttered this prophecy: »Come, Balak son of Zippor, and listen to what I have to say. ¹⁹ »God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act? ²⁰ »I have been instructed to bless. And when God blesses, I cannot call it back. ²¹ »He has not observed wickedness in Jacob. Nor has he seen trouble in Israel! Jehovah his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them. ²² »God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull. ²³ »For there is omen (spell) against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel. At the proper time it will be said to Jacob and Israel: What God has done! ²⁴ »Behold, the nation of Israel! It is like a mighty lion: It will rise and not lie down again until it has torn and devoured it’s pray. It will drink the blood of those it has killed.« ²⁵ Balak said to Balaam: »You refuse to curse (malign) the people of Israel, but at least do not bless them!« ²⁶ Balaam answered: »Did I not tell you that I must do everything Jehovah tells me?«

⁵ How good are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwellings, O Israel! ⁶ »They are like valleys that stretch out, like gardens beside the river, like aloes planted by Jehovah, like cedars beside the waters. ⁷ »Water will flow from his buckets and his seed will be by many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. And his kingdom shall be exalted. ⁸ »God brings him out of Egypt. He is for him like the horns of the wild bull. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries. He will crush their bones in pieces and shatter them with his arrows. ⁹ »He bows down and he lies down like a lion. Like a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you! Cursed is everyone who curses you!« ¹⁰ Balak’s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and Balak said to Balaam: I called you to curse my enemies! But you have persisted in blessing them three times!

⁵ »Jehovah your God was not willing to listen to Balaam. Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because Jehovah your God loves you.

¹⁷ »Weapons forged against you will not prevail! You will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah and this is their vindication from me,« declares Jehovah.