THEOSISJoshua 24:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by him, and I delivered you out of his hand.
וְלֹ֥א אָבִ֖יתִי לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ לְבִלְעָ֑ם וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ בָּרוֹךְ֙ אֶתְכֶ֔ם וָאַצִּ֥ל אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִיָּדֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 22:11Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.
- Num 22:12And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.
- Num 23:3And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.
- Num 23:12He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
- Deut 23:5And the Lord thy God would not hear Balaam, and he turned his cursing into thy blessing, because he loved thee.
- Num 22:18Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less.
- Num 22:20God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.
- Num 24:5How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!