Numbers 22:8
Hebrew Text— Numbers 22:8He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
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“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”
You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
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.
he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, the Lord Yahweh’s hand fell on me there.
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.
But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
When he came out, he could not speak to them. They perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. He continued making signs to them, and remained mute.
A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
That same night, Yahweh’s word came to Nathan, saying,
That same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”
For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.