Numbers 22:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men come to call thee, arise and go with them: but what I say to thee, that thou shalt do.

³⁵ And the angel of God said to Balaam, Go with these men; but whatever word I speak to thee be careful to deliver that. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

⁵ And God put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt say.

¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Must I not be careful to speak what God hath put in my mouth?

¹⁶ And God met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

²⁶ In reply to which Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thee saying, Whatever God shall speak, that I must do.

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord, to do either good or evil, of my own mere will. Whatever God may order that I will speak.

⁵ and said to him, Behold thou art grown old, and thy sons do not walk in thy way. Now therefore appoint a king over us to judge us like the other nations. ⁶ And the thing was evil in the sight of Samuel, that they should say, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. ⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of this people as they have spoken to thee. For they have not rejected thee; but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. ⁸ According to all that they have done to me, from the day I brought them out of Egypt even to this day; as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so they do also to thee. ⁹ Now therefore hearken to their voice. Nevertheless testify to them, and tell them the prerogative of the king who shall reign over them.

¹² But when you saw that Nahas, the king of the Ammanites, had come out against you, you said, None but a king shall reign over us. Still however the Lord our God is our king, ¹³ even now, [when, Lo! the king whom you have chosen; and behold the Lord hath set a king over you;] ¹⁴ provided you fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and dispute not the command of the Lord, and both you, and the king who reigneth over you, continue walking after the Lord. ¹⁵ But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord; or if you dispute the command of the Lord, the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king. ¹⁶ Now therefore stand up and see this great thing which the Lord will do in your sight. ¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. ¹⁹ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, that we may not die, because we have added evil to all our sins, in asking for ourselves a king.

¹⁰ The Lord dissipateth the counsels of nations, and disannulleth the devices of peoples. He disannulleth also the counsels of chiefs. ¹¹ But the counsel of the Lord shall endure forever, the thoughts of his heart from generations to generations.

³⁰ their longing desire was not stayed; therefore while the meat was still in their mouth, ³¹ the anger of God came up against them, and slew them amidst their fat viands, and fettered the chosen men of Israel.

¹² Therefore I gave them up to the devices of their own hearts. Let them walk in their own devices.

²⁹ and thy bitterness are come up to me; I will therefore put a hook in thy nose and a bridle in thy jaws; and turn thee back by the way in which thou camest."

² a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ³ Son of man, these men have given their imaginations the rule over their hearts, though they placed before their eyes the punishment of their transgressions. Shall I, being consulted, return them an answer? ⁴ Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Be the man who he may of the house of Israel, who giveth his imagination the rule over his understanding, when he hath set before his eyes the punishment of his iniquity, and cometh to a prophet: I the Lord will answer him by the things with which his mind is entangled, ⁵ that he may lead the house of Israel astray, according to their hearts which are alienated from me by their desires,

¹¹ I gave thee a king in mine indignation,

⁹ of him, whose coming is according to the energy of satan, with' all the power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.