Numbers 22:17 “for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come an…”

Numbers 22:17

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I wil promote thee vnto great honour, and wil do whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Darby Translation

for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Young's Literal Translation

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.'

Bible in Basic English

For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.

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Cross references

“I will promote”

Numbers 24:11 Deuteronomy 16:9 Esther 5:11 Esther 7:9 Matthew 16:26 Matthew 4:8

Numbers 24:11 · BSB

Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”

Deuteronomy 16:9 · BSB

You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

Esther 5:11 · BSB

Haman 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 7:9 · BSB

Then 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 k…

Matthew 16:26 · BSB

What 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?

Matthew 4:8 · BSB

Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

“and I will do”

Matthew 14:7 Numbers 23:2 Numbers 23:3 Numbers 23:29 Numbers 23:30

Matthew 14:7 · BSB

so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.

Numbers 23:2 · BSB

So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:3 · BSB

“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

Numbers 23:29 · BSB

Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

Numbers 23:30 · BSB

So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Also

Numbers 22:37 Numbers 22:6

Numbers 22:37 · BSB

And 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 reward you richly?”

Numbers 22:6 · BSB

So 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…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16They came to Balaam and said, “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

18But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

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