Numbers 22:20 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֨א	vai.ya.Vo'	and he came	H935 →
אֱלֹהִ֥ים׀	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בִּלְעָם֮	bil.'Am	Balaam	H1109 →
לַיְלָה֒	lay.Lah	night	H3915 →
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
ל֗וֹ	lo	to <the> him
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
לִקְרֹ֤א	lik.Ro'	to summon	H7121 →
לְךָ֙	le.Kha	<to> <the> you
בָּ֣אוּ	Ba.'u	they have come	H935 →
הָאֲנָשִׁ֔ים	ha.'a.na.Shim	the men	H582 →
ק֖וּם	kum	arise	H6965 →
לֵ֣ךְ	lekh	go	H1980 →
אִתָּ֑ם	'i.Tam	with them	H854 →
וְאַ֗ךְ	ve.'Akh	and only	H389 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַדָּבָ֛ר	ha.da.Var	the word	H1697 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
אֲדַבֵּ֥ר	'a.da.Ber	I will speak	H1696 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
אֹת֥וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
תַעֲשֶֽׂה׃	ta.'a.Seh	you will do	H6213 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
leads to
- Jeremiah 7:24
  Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Romans 1:24
  Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- Isaiah 30:1
  “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
- Acts 7:42
  But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and…
- Romans 1:26–27
  For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Through
Numbers 23:12
But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
leads to
- Numbers 22:38
  “See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Numbers 23:26
But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”
leads to
- Numbers 22:18
  But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 5:29
  But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Numbers 23:26But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”Numbers 24:13that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.Numbers 23:12But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”Jeremiah 1:7But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.Numbers 22:35But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.Numbers 22:9Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.Genesis 31:24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.Psalms 78:30–31Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,Isaiah 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’Numbers 23:16And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”Ezekiel 14:2–5And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,1 Samuel 12:12–19But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.2 Thessalonians 2:9–12The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,Hosea 13:11So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.Psalms 33:10–11The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.1 Samuel 8:5–9“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

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