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Text -- Numbers 23:11-17 (NET)
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Balaam Relocates
23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam , “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies , but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”
23:12 Balaam replied , “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth ?”
23:13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there .”
23:14 So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim , to the top of Pisgah , where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar .
23:15 And Balaam said to Balak , “Station yourself here by your burnt offering , while I meet the Lord there .
23:16 Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said , “Return to Balak , and speak what I tell you.”
23:17 When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering , along with the princes of Moab . And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken ?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
God |
POETRY, HEBREW |
PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 1 |
Hypocrisy |
Pisgah |
Moabites |
Worldliness |
Temptation |
Sorcery |
REVELATION, 3-4 |
Zophim |
Minister |
Prophets |
Curse |
NEBO |
BLESS |
BALAAM |
Zophim, Field of |
NEBO, MOUNT |
NUMBER |
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NET Notes: Num 23:11 The construction is emphatic, using the perfect tense and the infinitive absolute to give it the emphasis. It would have the force of “you have ...
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NET Notes: Num 23:12 The clause is a noun clause serving as the direct object of “to speak.” It begins with the sign of the accusative, and then the relative p...
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NET Notes: Num 23:15 The verse uses כֹּה (koh) twice: “Station yourself here…I will meet [the Lord] there.”
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