A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.22.5; son of: Beor (H1160H) Also named: Balaam (Βαλαάμ "Balaam" G0903) § Balaam = "not of the people" the son of Beor, a man endowed with the gift of prophecy
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Numbers 22:5 · בִּלְעָ֣םHe sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.Numbers 22:7 · בִּלְעָ֔םThe elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.Numbers 22:8 · בִּלְעָֽם׃He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.Numbers 22:9 · בִּלְעָ֑םGod came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”Numbers 22:10 · בִּלְעָ֖םBalaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,Numbers 22:12 · בִּלְעָ֔םGod said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.”Numbers 22:13 · בִּלְעָם֙Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”Numbers 22:14 · בִּלְעָ֖םThe princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”Numbers 22:16 · בִּלְעָ֑םThey came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:Numbers 22:18 · בִּלְעָ֗םBalaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.Numbers 22:20 · בִּלְעָם֮God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”Numbers 22:21 · בִּלְעָם֙Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.Numbers 22:23 · בִּלְעָם֙The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.Numbers 22:25 · בִּלְעָ֖םThe donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he struck her again.Numbers 22:27 · בִּלְעָ֑ם · בִּלְעָ֔םThe donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.Numbers 22:28 · לְבִלְעָם֙Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”Numbers 22:29 · בִּלְעָם֙Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”Numbers 22:30 · בִּלְעָ֗םThe donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?” He said, “No.”Numbers 22:31 · בִלְעָם֒Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.Numbers 22:34 · בִּלְעָ֜םBalaam said to the angel of Yahweh, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”Numbers 22:35 · בִּלְעָ֗ם · בִּלְעָ֖םThe angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.Numbers 22:36 · בִלְעָ֑םWhen Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.Numbers 22:37 · בִּלְעָ֗םBalak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”Numbers 22:38 · בִּלְעָ֜םBalaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”Numbers 22:39 · בִּלְעָ֖םBalaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.Numbers 22:40 · לְבִלְעָ֔םBalak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.Numbers 22:41 · בִּלְעָ֔םIt happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.Numbers 23:1 · בִּלְעָם֙Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”Numbers 23:2 · בִּלְעָ֑ם · וּבִלְעָ֛םBalak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.Numbers 23:3 · בִּלְעָ֜םBalaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.Numbers 23:4 · בִּלְעָ֑םGod met Balaam: and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”Numbers 23:5 · בִלְעָ֑םYahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”Numbers 23:11 · בִּלְעָ֔םBalak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”Numbers 23:16 · בִּלְעָ֔םYahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”Numbers 23:25 · בִּלְעָ֔םBalak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”Numbers 23:26 · בִּלְעָ֔םBut Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”Numbers 23:27 · בִּלְעָ֔םBalak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.”Numbers 23:28 · בִּלְעָ֑םBalak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.Numbers 23:29 · בִּלְעָם֙Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”Numbers 23:30 · בִּלְעָ֑םBalak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.Numbers 24:1 · בִּלְעָ֗םWhen Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.Numbers 24:2 · בִלְעָ֜םBalaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.Numbers 24:3 · בִּלְעָם֙He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;Numbers 24:10 · בִּלְעָ֔ם · בִּלְעָ֗םBalak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.Numbers 24:12 · בִּלְעָ֖םBalaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,Numbers 24:15 · בִּלְעָם֙He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;Numbers 24:25 · בִּלְעָ֔םBalaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.Numbers 31:8 · בִּלְעָ֣םThey killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.Numbers 31:16 · בִּלְעָ֔םBehold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.Deuteronomy 23:4 · בִּלְעָ֣םbecause they didn’t meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.Deuteronomy 23:5 · בִּלְעָ֔םNevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.Joshua 13:22 · בִּלְעָ֥םThe children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.Joshua 24:9 · לְבִלְעָ֥םThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;Joshua 24:10 · לְבִלְעָ֑םbut I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.1 Chronicles 6:70 · בִּלְעָ֖םand out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.Nehemiah 13:2 · בִּלְעָם֙because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.Micah 6:5 · בִּלְעָ֣םMy people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”