Numbers Chapter 23 Continues to Take on Balaam and Balak Conversations and Requests

Learn From This Chapter How One Insists His Agenda To Go Against What G-d Has Said

*This is a perfect example of disobedience. I.e. G-d repeatedly said that He is One and Alone. But the Greek book – New Testament refused to accept His word by pushing J*sus as G-d and that G-d is 3-in-1 or trinity.

Act now to stop this falsehood. Listen to what G-d speak. Not fellow men (Psalms 146).

“Balaam’s Altar Offerings”
“Balaam’s First Blessing”
“Balak’s Anger”
“Balaam’s Second Blessing”
“Balak’s Anger and Further Request”

Balaam said to Balak, “build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
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He declaimed his parable and said: “From Aram, Balak, king of Moab, led me, from the mountains of the east, ‘Come curse Jacob for me, come bring anger upon Israel.’
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“How can I curse? – God has not cursed. How can I anger? – Hashem is not angry.
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“For from its origins, I see it rock-like, and from hills do I see it. Behold! it is a nation that will dwell in solitude and not be reckoned among the nations.
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Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me! To curse my enemy have I brought you – but behold! you have even blessed!”
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He spoke up and said, “Is it not so that whatever Hashem puts in my mouth, that must I take heed to speak?
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“God is not a man that He should be deceitful, nor a son of man that He should relent. Would He say and not do, or speak and not confirm?
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Behold! to bless have I received – He has blessed, and I shall not contradict it.
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“He perceived no iniquity in Jacob, and saw no perversity in Israel. Hashem, his God, is with him, and the friendship of the King is in him.
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“It is God Who brought them out of Egypt according to the power of His loftiness,
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“for there is no divination in Jacob and no sorcery in Israel. Even now it is said to Jacob and Israel what God has wrought.
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Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, ‘Whatever Hashem shall speak, that I shall do?”
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1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
2 Balak did as Balaam had requested, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on [each] altar.
3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will happen to appear to me, and He will show me something that I can tell you,” and he went alone.
4 God chanced upon Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on [each] altar.”
5 The Lord placed something into Balaam’s mouth, and He said, “Return to Balak and say as follows.”
6 When he returned, Balak was standing next to his burnt offering, he and all the Moabite dignitaries.
7 He took up his parable and said, “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east [saying], ‘Come, curse Jacob for me and come invoke wrath against Israel.’
8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed, and how can I invoke wrath if the Lord has not been angered?
9 For from their beginning, I see them as mountain peaks, and I behold them as hills; it is a nation that will dwell alone, and will not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who counted the dust of Jacob or the number of a fourth of [or, of the seed of] Israel? May my soul die the death of the upright and let my end be like his.”
11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them!”
12 He answered, saying, “What the Lord puts into my mouth that I must take care to say.”
13 Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place from where you will see them; however, you will see only a part of them, not all of them and curse them for me from there.
14 He took him to the field of the lookouts, to the peak of the mountain, and he built seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on [each] altar.
15 He said to Balak, “Stand here next to your burnt offering and I will be chanced on here.
16 The Lord chanced upon Balaam and placed something into his mouth. He said, “Return to Balak and so you shall speak.”
17 When he came to him, he was standing next to his burnt offering, and the Moabite dignitaries were with him, and Balak said to him, “What did the Lord speak?”
18 He took up his parable and said, “Arise, Balak, and hear; listen closely to me, son of Zippor.
19 God is not a man that He should lie, nor is He a mortal that He should relent. Would He say and not do, speak and not fulfill?
20 I have received [an instruction] to bless, and He has blessed, and I cannot retract it.
21 He does not look at evil in Jacob, and has seen no perversity in Israel; the Lord, his God, is with him, and he has the King’s friendship.
22 God has brought them out of Egypt with the strength of His loftiness.
23 For there is no divination in Jacob and no soothsaying in Israel. In time it will be said to Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought?’
24 Behold, a people that rises like a lioness (See Malbim) and raises itself like a lion. It does not lie down until it eats its prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”
25 Balak said to Balaam, “You shall neither curse them nor shall you bless them.”
26 Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, ‘Everything the Lord speaks that I shall do.”
27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to a different place. Perhaps it will please God, and you will curse them for me from there.
28 So Balak took Balaam to the peak of Peor, overlooking the wastelands.
29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.
30 Balak did as Balaam told him, and offered up a bull and a ram on [each] altar.