Joshua 24:10 Cross References - CLV

¹⁰ and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he does greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand.

¹¹ Behold, the people coming forth from Egypt are covering the eye of the land! Now go, revile him for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight him, and I will drive him out. ¹² Then Elohim said to Balaam:You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for it is blessed.

¹⁸ Yet Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak:If Balak were giving to me the fullness of his house in silver and gold I could not cross the bidding of Yahweh my Elohim to do what is small or great. ¹⁹ Yet now dwell, I pray, you too, in this place, for the night; then I shall know what Yahweh shall continue to speak with me. ²⁰ Elohim came to Balaam at night and said to him:Since the men have come to call for you, rise, go with them. Yet only the word that I speak to you, only it shall you use.

³⁵ The messenger of Yahweh said to Balaam:Go with the men, yet only the word which I speak to you may you speak to him. So Balaam went with the chiefs of Balak.

³ Then Balaam said to Balak:Station yourself at your ascent offering and let me go. Perhaps Yahweh shall happen to meet me; then whatever word He shall show me I will tell you. So he went off to the ridge. ⁴ Elohim met Balaam, and he said to Him:The seven altars have I arranged, and I offered up a young bull and a ram on each altar. ⁵ Yahweh placed a word in the mouth of Balaam and said:Return to Balak and thus shall you speak. ⁶ So he returned to him and behold, he and all the chiefs of Moab were stationed at his ascent offering. ⁷ He took up his discourse and said:From Syria Balak gave me guidance, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east:Come now and curse Jacob for me! And come now and menace Israel. ⁸ How should I revile when El has not reviled him? How should I menace when Yahweh has not menaced? ⁹ For from the summit of the rocks I am seeing him, and from the hills I am regarding him. Behold, the people is tabernacling by itself alone, and among the nations it is not reckoning itself. ¹⁰ Who counts the soil-drift of Jacob? And who numbers the dust cloud of Israel? May my soul die the death of the upright, and may my hereafter be just as his!" ¹¹ Then Balak said to Balaam:What have you done to me? To revile my enemies I took you, yet behold, you bless, yea bless them!" ¹² Yet he answered and said:What Yahweh places in my mouth, is it not it that I should observe to speak?

¹⁵ Then he said to Balak:Station yourself thus at your ascent offering while I meet Him thus. ¹⁶ Yahweh met with Balaam and placed the word in his mouth and said:Return to Balak and thus shall you speak. ¹⁷ So he came to him, and behold, he was stationed at his ascent offering, and the chiefs of Moab with him. Balak said to him:What has Yahweh spoken? ¹⁸ He took up his discourse and said:Arise, Balak, and hear! Give ear unto me, son of Zippor!" ¹⁹ El is not a man that He should lie. Nor a son of humanity that He should feel regret. Does He say it and then not do it? Or speak and then not carry it out? ²⁰ Behold, I undertake to bless; He blesses and I shall not reverse it. ²¹ He does not look for sorrow in Jacob, nor does He see toil in Israel. Yahweh their Elohim is with him, and the shout of their king is with him. ²² El, Who brought them forth from Egypt, was to him like a wild bull's cornuted strength. ²³ For there is no augury against Jacob nor divination against Israel; at the right time it is spoken to Jacob and to Israel:What has El contrived! ²⁴ Behold, the people arise like a parent lion, and like a lion lifts himself. He shall not lie down until he devours the prey and drinks the blood of those wounded to death. ²⁵ Balak said to Balaam:If you shall not revile, yea revile him at all, you should also not bless, yea bless him at all!" ²⁶ Balaam responded and said to Balak:Did not I speak to you, saying:All that Yahweh shall speak, it I shall do?

⁵ How good are your tents, O Jacob! Your tabernacles, O Israel!" ⁶ Like the watercourses are they stretched out, like gardens along a stream, like the aloes Yahweh has planted, like the cedars beside the waters. ⁷ Water flows from its irrigation buckets, so its seed is among abundant waters. His king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall lift itself up. ⁸ El Who brought him forth from Egypt is to him as a wild bull's cornuted strength. He shall devour the nations, his foes, and pick their bones clean; His arrow shall transfix the enemy. ⁹ He crouches and lies down like a lion, and like a parent lion; who shall make him rise? Whoever is blessing you is blessed and whoever is cursing you is cursed. ¹⁰ Now Balak's anger grew hot against Balaam, and he slapped his palms together. Balak said to Balaam:To revile my enemies I called you, and behold, you have blessed, yea blessed them these three times!"

⁵ But Yahweh your Elohim would not hearken to Balaam. And Yahweh your Elohim turned the malediction into a blessing for you, for Yahweh your Elohim loves you.

¹⁷ Any implement formed against you shall not prosper, and any tongue which rises against you for judgment you shall condemn. This is the allotment of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness is from Me,averring is Yahweh."