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Numbers 22:17

for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”

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ASV

for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

KJV

For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
כַבֵּ֤דkha.Bedsurely <honor>H3513 →
אֲכַבֶּדְךָ֙'a.kha.bed.KhaI will honor youH3513 →
מְאֹ֔דme.'OdexceedinglyH3966 →
וְכֹ֛לve.Kholand allH3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-thatH834 →
תֹּאמַ֥רto.Maryou will sayH559 →
אֵלַ֖י'e.Laito meH413 →
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֑ה'e.'e.SehI will doH6213 →
וּלְכָה־u.le.khah-and come !H1980 →
נָּא֙na'pleaseH4994 →
קָֽבָה־ka.vah-curse !H6895 →
לִּ֔יLifor <the> me
אֵ֖ת'et<obj.>H853 →
הָעָ֥םha.'Amthe peopleH5971 →
הַזֶּֽה׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →

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Numbers 24:11Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”Numbers 23:11Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”Deuteronomy 23:4For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.Numbers 24:10Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times.Deuteronomy 16:9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.Matthew 14:7so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.Numbers 22:37And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”Numbers 22:6So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”Numbers 23:2–3So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.Esther 7:9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.Numbers 23:29–30Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?Matthew 4:8–9Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.Daniel 2:6But if you tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and its interpretation.”Daniel 5:7The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”Numbers 23:7And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’Acts 1:18(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

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An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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