Numbers 24:11

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."

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  • Num 22:17 : 17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"
  • Num 22:37 : 37 Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"
  • Matt 19:28-30 : 28 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.
  • Acts 8:20 : 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • Heb 11:24-26 : 24 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; 26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-3 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; 3 neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 22:37-38
    2 verses
    79%

    37Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

    38Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."

  • Num 22:10-20
    11 verses
    78%

    10Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],

    11'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"

    12God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."

    14The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

    15Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

    16They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

    17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

    18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

    20God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

  • Num 24:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

    13'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?

    14Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

    12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

    13Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."

  • Num 24:10
    76%

    10Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."

    26But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

    27Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

  • Josh 24:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

    10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

  • Num 23:5
    74%

    5Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

  • Num 24:25
    74%

    25Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

  • Num 22:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."

    7The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

    8He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

  • Num 23:15-18
    4 verses
    73%

    15He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

    16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

    17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

    18He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
    73%

    30"Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

  • Num 22:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."

    35The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • Deut 23:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4because they didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

    5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

  • Num 23:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Num 23:3
    72%

    3Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

  • Prov 25:7
    71%

    7for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

  • Num 24:1
    71%

    1When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • Num 22:41
    71%

    41It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

  • Judg 11:25
    71%

    25Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

  • Isa 22:18
    70%

    18He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    70%

    13As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.