Numbers 24:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.
וְעַתָּ֖ה בְּרַח־לְךָ֣ אֶל־מְקוֹמֶ֑ךָ אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ כַּבֵּ֣ד אֲכַבֶּדְךָ֔ וְהִנֵּ֛ה מְנָעֲךָ֥ יְהוָ֖ה מִכָּבֽוֹד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 22:17For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.
- Num 22:37And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?
- 1 Pet 5:2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily:
- 1 Pet 5:3Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
- 2 John 1:8Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.
- Phil 3:8Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.
- Acts 8:20Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee: because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
- Heb 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao's daughter: