Numbers 23:16 BSB — MannaFest

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13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקָּ֤ר	vai.yi.Kar	and he met	H7136 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	<to>	H413 →
בִּלְעָ֔ם	bil.'Am	Balaam	H1109 →
וַיָּ֥שֶׂם	vai.Ya.sem	and he put	H7760 →
דָּבָ֖ר	da.Var	a word	H1697 →
בְּפִ֑יו	be.Fiv	in mouth his	H6310 →
וַיֹּ֛אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
שׁ֥וּב	shuv	return	H7725 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בָּלָ֖ק	ba.Lak	Balak	H1111 →
וְכֹ֥ה	ve.Khoh	and thus	H3541 →
תְדַבֵּֽר׃	te.da.Ber	you will speak	H1696 →

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
Numbers 23:5
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:18
  I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- Jeremiah 1:9
  Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- Isaiah 59:21
  “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your…
- Isaiah 51:16
  I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
Through
Numbers 24:1
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
leads to
- Numbers 23:3
  “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went…
- Numbers 23:23
  For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
- Numbers 22:13
  So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
Through
Numbers 22:35
But 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.
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12
  The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

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.

Exodus 4:15You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.Numbers 23:4and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”Numbers 23:5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”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.”Numbers 24:1And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.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.1 Kings 13:20While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,Numbers 22:20That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

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