Numbers 23:5 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 23:5

Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

KJV

And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

AGAINST MARCION 4.28.8 (220)

The prophet Balaam, in Numbers, was sent forth by king Balak to curse Israel, with whom he was commencing war. But at the same moment he was filled with the spirit. Instead of the curse which he came to pronounce, he uttered the blessing which the spirit at that very hour inspired him with. This is he who had previously declared to the king's messengers, and then to the king himself, that he could only speak forth that which God should put into his mouth.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֧שֶׂם	vai.Ya.sem	and he put	H7760 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
דָּבָ֖ר	da.Var	a word	H1697 →
בְּפִ֣י	be.Fi	in [the] mouth of	H6310 →
בִלְעָ֑ם	vil.'Am	Balaam	H1109 →
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.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 31:31–34
  Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- Hebrews 10:16
  “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
- Ezekiel 36:25–27
  I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Jeremiah 32:38–41
  They will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Hebrews 8:6–13
  Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
Through
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.
leads to
- Luke 21:15
  For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
- Exodus 4:11–12
  And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- Luke 12:12
  For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say.”