Numbers 22:20 Cross References - CLV

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.

⁵ Yahweh placed a word in the mouth of Balaam and said:Return to Balak and thus shall you speak.

¹² Yet he answered and said:What Yahweh places in my mouth, is it not it that I should observe to speak?

¹⁶ Yahweh met with Balaam and placed the word in his mouth and said:Return to Balak and thus shall you speak.

²⁶ Balaam responded and said to Balak:Did not I speak to you, saying:All that Yahweh shall speak, it I shall do?

¹³ If Balak were giving to me the fullness of his house in silver and gold, I could not cross the bidding of Yahweh to do what is good or evil out of my own heart. Whatever Yahweh shall speak, it shall I speak.

⁵ and say unto him, `Lo, you have become aged, and your sons have not walked in your ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.. <sup>6</sup> And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prays unto Yahweh. ⁷ And Yahweh said unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto you, for you they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them. ⁸ According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other elohims--so they are doing also to you. ⁹ And now, hearken to their voice; only, surely you do certainly protest to them, and have declared to them the custom of the king who does reign over them..

¹² `And you see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon has come against you, and you say to me, Nay, but a king does reign over us; and Yahweh your Elohim [is] your king!" <sup>13</sup> And, now, lo, the king whom you have chosen--whom you have asked! and lo, Yahweh has placed over you a king. <sup>14</sup> `If you fear Yahweh, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then you do not provoke the mouth of Yahweh, and you have been--both you and the king who has reigned over you--after Yahweh your Elohim. ¹⁵ `And if you do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh--then you have provoked the mouth of Yahweh, and the hand of Yahweh has been against you, and against your fathers. <sup>16</sup> `Also now, station yourselves and see this great thing which Yahweh is doing before your eyes;" ¹⁷ is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I call unto Yahweh, and He does give voices and rain; and know you and see that your evil is great which you have done in the eyes of Yahweh, to ask for you a king.. ¹⁸ And Samuel calls unto Yahweh, and Yahweh gives voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Yahweh and Samuel;" ¹⁹ and all the people say unto Samuel, `Pray for your servants unto Yahweh your Elohim, and we do not die, for we have added to all our sins evil to ask for us a king..

¹⁰ Yahweh, He annuls the intrigue of the nations; He repudiates the devices of the peoples." ¹¹ The counsel of Yahweh shall stand for the eon, The designs of His heart for generation after generation."

³⁰ Yet they were not alienated from their yearning; Their food was still in their mouth, ³¹ When the anger of Elohim ascended against them; He killed the stoutest of them, And the choice ones of Israel He cut off."

¹² So I let them go in the obduracy of their own heart; They went in their own counsels.

²⁹ Because your perturbance against Me and your tumult ascends in My ears, so I will place My gaff in your nose, and My bit in your lips, and I will reverse you by the way in which you came."

² And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, ³ `Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them? <sup>4</sup> `Therefore, speak with them, and you have said unto them:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Every one of the house of Israel who causes his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity sets over-against his face, and has gone in unto the prophet--I Yahweh have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols, ⁵ in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols--all of them."

¹¹ I am giving you a king in My anger, and I am taking him away in My rage."

⁹ whose presence is in accord with the operation of Satan, with all power and signs and false miracles" ¹⁰ and with every seduction of injustice among those who are perishing, because they do not receive the love of the truth for their salvation." ¹¹ And therefore God will be sending them an operation of deception, for them to believe the falsehood, ¹² that all may be judged who do not believe the truth, but delight in injustice."