Numbers 14:12

14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Numbers 16:46-47

16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!” 16:47 So Aaron did ²  as Moses commanded ³  and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.

Numbers 16:2

16:2 and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders ⁴  of the community, chosen from the assembly, ⁵  famous men. ⁶ 

Numbers 24:13-15

24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ⁷  the commandment ⁸  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ⁹  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’? 24:14 And now, I am about to go ¹⁰  back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.” ¹¹ 

Balaam Prophesies a Fourth Time

24:15 Then he uttered this oracle: ¹² 

“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor;

the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;

Ezekiel 14:19-21

14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals. 14:20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem ¹³  to kill both people and animals!

¹ tc The Greek version has “death.”

² tn Heb “took.”

³ tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”

³ tn Heb “princes” (so KJV, ASV).

⁴ tn These men must have been counselors or judges of some kind.

⁵ tn Heb “men of name,” or “men of renown.”

⁴ tn Heb “I am not able to go beyond.”

⁵ tn Heb “mouth.”

⁶ tn Heb “from my heart.”

⁵ tn The construction is the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) suffixed followed by the active participle. This is the futur instans use of the participle, to express something that is about to happen: “I am about to go.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the latter days.” For more on this expression, see E. Lipinski, “באחרית הימים dans les textes préexiliques,” VT 20 (1970): 445-50.

⁶ tn Heb “and he took up his oracle and said.”

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