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“Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but have I power to say anything? Only what God puts into my mouth may I say.”— Balaam, Numbers 22:38
“And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.”— Balaam, Numbers 23:1
“Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill. And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.”— Balaam, Numbers 23:3-4
“And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel. How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry? From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations. Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last…”— Balaam, Numbers 23:7-10
“And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth?”— Balaam, Numbers 23:12
“Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.”— Balaam, Numbers 23:15
“And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor: God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth? See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away. He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them. It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those…”— Balaam, Numbers 23:18-24
“But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?”— Balaam, Numbers 23:26
“And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.”— Balaam, Numbers 23:29
“And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open: He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having his eyes open: How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel! They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters. Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in…”— Balaam, Numbers 24:3-9
“Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say? So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come. Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open: He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of…”— Balaam, Numbers 24:12-24
“So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me: Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.”— Balak, Numbers 22:5-6
“And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you, requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not come? am I not able to give you a place of honour?”— Balak, Numbers 22:37
“Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.”— Balak, Numbers 23:11
“And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.”— Balak, Numbers 23:13
“So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?”— Balak, Numbers 23:17
“Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.”— Balak, Numbers 23:25
“Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.”— Balak, Numbers 23:27
“Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing. Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.”— Balak, Numbers 24:10-11
“And Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go; but if you will not go with me I will not go.”— Barak, Judges 4:8
“And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us. And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.”— Bartimaeus, Matthew 20:30-31
“They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.”— Bartimaeus, Matthew 20:33
“And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.”— Bartimaeus, Mark 10:47
“And Jesus said to him, What would you have me do to you? And the blind man said, Master, make me able to see.”— Bartimaeus, Mark 10:51
“And he said in a loud voice, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.”— Bartimaeus, Luke 18:38
“What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again.”— Bartimaeus, Luke 18:41
“Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.”— Baruch, Jeremiah 36:18
“And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king? I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king? Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward? Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your…”— Barzillai, 2 Samuel 19:34-37
“And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.”— Bathsheba, 2 Samuel 11:5
“And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom. And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge; And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant. And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of…”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 1:17-21
“Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 1:31
“Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith, came to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, Come you in peace? And he said, Yes, in peace.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 2:13
“Then he said, I have something to say to you. And she said, Say on.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 2:14
“And Bath-sheba said, Good! I will make your request to the king.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 2:18
“Then she said, I have one small request to make to you; do not say, No, to me. And the king said, Say on, my mother, for I will not say, No, to you.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 2:20
“And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.”— Bathsheba, 1 Kings 2:21
“The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.”— Belshazzar, Daniel 5:7
“Then they took Daniel in before the king; the king made answer and said to Daniel, So you are that Daniel, of the prisoners of Judah, whom my father took out of Judah. And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you. And now the wise men, the users of secret arts, have been sent in before me for the purpose of reading this writing and making clear to me the sense of it: but they are not able to make clear the sense of the thing: And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and…”— Belshazzar, Daniel 5:13-16
“Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.”— Ben-Hadad, 1 Kings 20:12
“And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.”— Ben-Hadad, 1 Kings 20:18
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