Numbers 22:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’””
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“for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.”
King James Version · Public Domain“for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for very greatly I honour thee, and all that thou sayest unto me I do; and come, I pray thee, pierce for me this people.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 22:17 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 22:6So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
- Numbers 22:37And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”
- Numbers 23:2So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- Numbers 23:29Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
- Numbers 24:11Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”
- Deuteronomy 16:9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
- Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
- Esther 7:9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
- Matthew 4:8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
- Matthew 14:7so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.
- Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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