2 Kings 8:8-9
8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift
and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the
Lord. Ask him,
‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
8:9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha.
He took along a gift,
as well as
forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, “Your son,
King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question,
‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
Numbers 22:7
22:7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.
Numbers 22:17-18
22:17 For I will honor you greatly,
and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”
22:18 Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the Lord my God to do less or more.
Numbers 24:11-13
24:11 So now, go back where you came from!
I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the
Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”
24:12 Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
24:13 ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?
Numbers 24:1
Balaam Prophesies Yet Again
24:1 When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to seek for omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 9:8
9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain
here and I will hear
what the
Lord will command concerning you.”
Numbers 9:1
Passover Regulations
9:1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt:
Numbers 13:7
13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;
Numbers 22:3
22:3 And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.
Acts 8:18-20
8:18 Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,
8:19 saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
8:20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!