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2 days ago · 28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward jeshimon. 29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 1 Chronicles 29
1 day ago · Balak, the king of Moab, decides that he needs supernatural help in order to curse and defeat this people. He calls on the services of a “pagan,” gentile, prophet of YHVH, all the way from Mesopotamia, named Balaam. But God only allows the prophet to speak blessing over Israel, while ignoring Israel’s many sins.
2 days ago · Balak is stunned and understandably upset, and a second attempt at cursing Israel is arranged—same result: Balaam blesses Israel. Balak is now beside himself, and angrily gets Balaam to try a third time, and here are the words of Balaam the third time around: 5 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
3 days ago · • When the Moabite king, Balak tried to hire the prophet Balaam to curse the children of Israel. (You remember the talking donkey story). • God would not permit Balaam to curse Israel and so Balak was looking for ways to break the union between God and His people. We don’t see it here, but later in Numbers we find out that
13 hours ago · Balaam was a most highly favored man of God; but he allowed himself to be seduced by the gold of Balak, and then led Israel astray into idolatry and whoredom and great wretchedness, and died a miserable death by the sword of wrath.
3 days ago · You can read about Balaam in Numbers 22-24. As a refresher, he is the pagan prophet that the king of Moab hires to curse Israel. God forbids him to curse Israel, and when Balaam is on his way to do that very thing, God uses his donkey to talk to him. Balaam blesses Israel. Balak, the king of Moab, is furious with Balaam. Balaam tells him this.
5 days ago · Balaam told Balak to get the Moabite women to get the men of Israel to violate the Covenant God made with them by tempting them to eat meat sacrificed to idols and commit acts of sexual immorality with them to worship Baal (Revelation 2:14).
