Numbers 22:14
Hebrew Text— Numbers 22:14The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”
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Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.”
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.’ ”
Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?