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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 22:9

Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Transjordan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Moab, Moabites;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zippor ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balak;   Midian;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moab;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Balaam;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Update Bible Version
And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
English Revised Version
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
New Century Version
God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"
New English Translation
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Webster's Bible Translation
And God came to Balaam, and said, What men [are] these with thee?
World English Bible
God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
Amplified Bible
God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What wolen these men at thee `to hem silf?
Young's Literal Translation
And God cometh in unto Balaam, and saith, `Who [are] these men with thee?'
Berean Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"
Contemporary English Version
During the night, God asked Balaam, "Who are these people at your house?"
American Standard Version
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
Bible in Basic English
And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And God came vnto Balaam, and sayd: What men are these with thee?
Complete Jewish Bible
God came to Bil‘am and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Darby Translation
And God came to Balaam, and said, Who are these men with thee?
Easy-to-Read Version
God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these men with you?"
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?'
King James Version (1611)
And God came vnto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
New Life Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
New Revised Standard
God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And God came in unto Balaam, - and said, Who are these men with thee?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then God came vnto Balaam, and sayde, What men are these with thee?
George Lamsa Translation
And God came to Balaam and said to him, Who are these men that are with you?
Good News Translation
God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these people that are staying with you?"
Douay-Rheims Bible
What mean these men that are with thee?
Revised Standard Version
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with thee?
Hebrew Names Version
God came to Bil`am, and said, What men are these with you?
King James Version
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
Lexham English Bible
And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Literal Translation
And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And God came vnto Balaam, & sayde: What men are these, which are with ye?
THE MESSAGE
Then God came to Balaam. He asked, "So who are these men here with you?"
New American Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
New King James Version
Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
New Living Translation
That night God came to Balaam and asked him, "Who are these men visiting you?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Legacy Standard Bible
Then God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

Contextual Overview

1The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho. 2Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and Moab dreaded the Israelites. 4So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.” 5he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him: “Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me. 6Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.” 7The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak’s words to him. 8He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the Lord tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam. 9Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”10Balaam replied to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent this message to me:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Numbers 22:20, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 41:25, Daniel 2:45, Daniel 4:31, Daniel 4:32, Matthew 7:22, Matthew 24:24, John 11:51

What men: Genesis 3:9-11, Genesis 4:9, Genesis 16:8, Exodus 4:2, 2 Kings 20:14, 2 Kings 20:15

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:3 - peradventure Numbers 23:4 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 22:1
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”
Genesis 22:2
“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”
Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Genesis 22:7
Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”
Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.
Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:17
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
Genesis 22:18
And all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And God came unto Balaam,.... In a dream very probably, as he did to Abimelech and Laban, Genesis 20:3:

and said, what men are these with thee? who lodged with him that night. This he said, not as ignorant who they were, or from whence they came, or what they came about; but in order to lead on to a discourse with Balaam, and to have from him the account of the men, and their business, and to try his fidelity in relating the affair.


 
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