World English Bible
Numbers 23:5
“Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Numbers 23:5 in the King James Version
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.Read Numbers 23:5 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Numbers 23
Balaam 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.
God 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.
Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Cross references for Numbers 23:5
- Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Jeremiah 1:9
Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
- Isaiah 59:21
As for me, this is my covenant with them," says Yahweh. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed,"...
- Isaiah 51:16
I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.
- Numbers 23:16
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this.
- John 11:51
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
- Luke 12:12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.
- Numbers 22:35
The 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.
- Proverbs 16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
- Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
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