Joshua 24:10 Cross References - Matthew

¹⁰ But I wold not agre to herken vnto Balam, and therfore he blessed you: And I delyuered you out of hys hande.

¹¹ beholde ther is a people come out of Egypt and couereth the face of the earth: come nowe therefore and curse me them, that so peraduenture I maye be able to ouercome them in battell, & to driue them oute. ¹² And God sayed vnto Balam: thou shalt not go wt them, neyther curse the people, for they are blessed.

¹⁸ And Balam answered and sayd vnto the seruauntes of Balac. If Balac would gyue me hys house ful of syluer and gold, I can go no further then the worde of the Lorde my God, to do lesse or more. ¹⁹ Neuertheles tarye ye here al nyght: that I may wete, what the Lorde wil say vnto me once more. ²⁰ And God came vnto Balam by nyghte and sayd vnto hym: If the men come to fette the ryse vp & go wyth them: but what I say vnto the, that onely thou shalt do.

³⁵ And the angel sayed vnto Balam, go wyth the men: but in any myse, what I saye vnto the, that saye. And Balam went with the lordes of Balac.

³ And Balam sayd vnto Balac: stande by the Sacrifyce whyle I go to wete whether the Lorde wil come and mete me, & whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyl tel the, & he went forthewyth. ⁴ And God came vnto Balam, & Balam sayed vnto hym: I haue prepared .vij. alters & haue offered vpon euerye alter, a bullock and a ram. ⁵ And the Lorde put a sayinge in Balams mouth and sayd: go agayne to Balac & say on thys wyse. ⁶ And he went againe vnto hym and loo, he stode by hys sacrifice, both he and all the Lordes of Moab. ⁷ And he began hys parable and said: Balac the king of Moab hath fette me from Mesopotamia out of the mountaynes of the east, sayinge: come and curse me Iacob, come & defye me Israel. ⁸ How shal I curse whom God curseth not and howe shall I defy whome the Lord defieth not? ⁹ from the toppes of the rockes I se hym, & from the hylles I behold him: loo, the people shal dwel by him selfe and shal not be rekened among other nations. ¹⁰ Who can tell the dust of Iacob and the numbre of the fourth parte of Israell. I pray God that my soul may dye the death of the rightuous and that my laste ende may be lyke his. ¹¹ And Balac sayed vnto Balam, what haste thou done vnto me? I fette the to curse myne enemies: and behold, thou blessest them. ¹² And he answered and sayed: must I not kepe that & speake it, whyche the Lorde hath put in my mouthe?

¹⁵ And he sayd vnto Balac: stand here by thy Sacrifyce whyle I go yonder. ¹⁶ And the Lorde mette Balam and put wordes in hys mouth and sayd: go agayne vnto Balac and thus say. ¹⁷ And when he came to him: behold, he stode by hys Sacrifice and the Lordes of Moab with him. And Balac said vnto hym: what sayth the Lord? ¹⁸ And he toke vp hys parable and said: rise vp Balac and heare, & herken vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor. ¹⁹ The Lorde is not a man, that he can lye, neither the sonne of man that he can repente: should he saye and not do, or shoulde he speake and not make it good? ²⁰ beholde, I haue begone to blesse and haue blessed, and can not goo backe therefro. ²¹ He beheld no wyckednes in Iacob nor saw idolatry in Israel: The Lord hys God is wyth hym, and the triumphe of a kynge is among them. ²² God hath brought them out of Egypt is as the strength of an vnicorne vnto them, ²³ for there is no sorcerer, in Iacob, nor sothsayer in Israell. When the tyme cometh, it wyll be sayed of Iacob and of Israell, what God hath wrought. ²⁴ Behold the people shall ryse vp as a lyonesse and heaue vp him selfe as a lyon, & shall not lye downe agayne, vntyl he haue eaten of the praye and dronke of the bloud of them that are slayne. ²⁵ And Balac saied vnto Balam: neither curse them nor blesse them. ²⁶ And Balam answered & sayd vnto Balac: tolde not I the sayinge: all that the Lorde byddeth me, that I muste doo?

⁵ Howe goodlye are the tentes of Iacob & thyne habitation Israel, ⁶ euen as the brod valeys, and as gardens by ryuers syde, as the tentes whyche the Lodre hath pytched & as cypres trees vpon the water. ⁷ The water shal flowe out of hys bouket & hys seed shal be many waters, and hys kyng shalbe hyer then Agag. And hys kyngdome shalbe exalted, ⁸ God that brought him out of Egipt his strength is as the strengthe of an vnicorne, & he shal eate the nations that are hys enemies & breake theyr bones, and perce them thorowe wyth hys arrowes. ⁹ He touched hym selfe & laye downe as a lyon and as a lyones, who shall sterre him vp, blessed is he that blesseth the, & cursed is he that curseth the. ¹⁰ And Balac was wroth wyth Balam and smote hys hands togyther, & sayd vnto him: I sent for the to curse myne enemies: and behold, thou hast blessed them thys thre times

⁵ Neuerthelesse the Lorde thy God wolde not herken vnto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing vnto the, because the Lorde thy God loued the.

¹⁷ but al the weapens that are made agaynste the, shal not prospere. And as for all tunges, that shall resiste the in iudgement, thou shalte ouercome them, and condempne them. This is the herytage of the Lordes seruauntes, and the ryghtuousnes that they shal haue of me, sayeth the Lorde.