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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Numbers 24:20 An end for Amalek
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 24:20 Balaam’s Final Messages 20 He looked at Amalek, took up his oracle, and said: First among the nations was Amalek, but his end will come to destruction. Balaam’s fifth oracle is about Amalek. The Amalekites were enemies with Israel from ancient times. The original Amalek was the grandson of […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 24:17-19 Not now, not near
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 24:17-19 17 I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise up out of Israel. It will smash the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of all the people of Sheth. These words echo Jacob’s own […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 114:3-8 The sea looked and fled
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 114:3-8 We return to Psalm 114, and praise given to God for the way he cares for his people at all times, and especially during the great crisis of the exodus. 3 The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 24:10-16 Translating “Behold”
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 24:10-16 10 Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he slapped his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but look, all you have done is bless them these three times. 11 Now get out of here. Go to your own place! I said I […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 24:6-9 Gardens, aloes, and salvation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 24:6-9 6 Like rows of palm trees they stretch out, like gardens by the riverside, like aloes which the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. To identify what “they” are in this verse we remember Balaam praising the tents of Israel in verse 5. He compares the […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 24:1-5 Will we know one another in heaven?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 24:1-5 24 When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go to look for omens as he had done at the other times, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2 When Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel dwelling according to […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:25-30 If you can’t say anything not nice…
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:25-30 25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all! Do not bless them at all!” 26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I say to you that I must do everything the LORD says?” Once again, Balak erupts in despair. His words, “Do not curse them at […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:21-24 cursum perficio
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:21-24 21 No disaster is in sight for Jacob. No suffering is seen in Israel. Israel had already received punishment for giving in to the temptation to doubt with the sin of unbelief. Their forty years of wandering were at an end, and although Moab might not have […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:13-20 The second oracle begins
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:13-20 Balaam’s Second Message 13 Balak said to Balaam, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will see only their outskirts. You will not see all of them. From there curse them for me.” 14 Balak took Balaam into the field of Zophim, to […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:7-12 Balaam’s first oracle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:7-12 7 Balaam took up his oracle. He said: Balaam’s oracles follow a distinct pattern, perhaps worthy of study or at least noticing. The content is what interests us the most, of course: From Aram, Balak has brought me. Balak, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains, […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 23:1-6 faith through the means of grace
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 23:1-6 Balaam’s First Message 23 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” In contexts like visions and parables, the number 7 usually represents holiness. Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and […]
God’s Word for You – Numbers 22:36-41 the floor is lava
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU NUMBERS 22:36-41 Balak Meets Balaam 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the Moabite town on the Arnon border at the edge of his territory. 37 Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I send for you urgently when I summoned you? Why didn’t you […]
