Bilangan 23:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu berkatalah Balak kepada Bileam: "Jika sekali-kali tidak mau engkau menyerapah mereka, janganlah sekali-kali memberkatinya."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah Balak kepada Bileam: "Jika sekali-kali tidak mau engkau menyerapah mereka, janganlah sekali-kali memberkatinya."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah Balak kepada Bileam: Jikalau sekali-kali tiada dapat engkau mengutuki dia, maka janganlah kiranya engkau memberkati dia berturut-turut.

Contextual Overview

¹³ And Balac sayde vnto hym: Come I pray thee with me vnto another place, whence thou mayest see them, and thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: curse them out of that place for my sake. ¹⁴ And he brought hym into a fielde, where men myght see farre of, euen to the toppe of an hyll, and buylt seuen aulters, and offred an oxe and a ramme on euery aulter. ¹⁵ And he said vnto Balac: Stande here by thy burnt sacrifice, whyle I meete [the Lorde] yonder. ¹⁶ And the Lord met Balaam, and put a worde in his mouth, and sayd: Go agayne vnto Balac, and say thus. ¹⁷ And when he came to hym, beholde he stoode by his burnt sacrifice, and the lordes of Moab with hym. And Balac saide vnto hym: What hath the Lorde sayde? ¹⁸ And he toke vp his parable, and aunswered: Rise vp Balac, and heare, and hearke vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor. ¹⁹ God is not a man that he should lye, neither the sonne of a ma that he should repent: should he say & not do? or should he speake, and not make it good? ²⁰ Beholde, I haue taken vpon me to blesse: for he hath blessed, and it is not in my power to aulter it. ²¹ He behelde no vanitie in Iacob, nor saw transgression in Israel: The Lord his God is with hym, and the ioyfull shout of a king is among them. ²² God brought them out of Egypt, they haue strength as an Unicorne.

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Psalms 2:1-3

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balak said unto Balaam, neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. Signifying that it would be as well or better to do nothing at all, than to do what he did; but the sense is not, that he would not have him curse them, that he could never say, since he had pressed it both before and after this; wherefore the words should be rendered, as they are by some p, "if in cursing thou dost not curse", or will not curse, "neither in blessing bless", or, however, do not bless: if he could not or would not curse Israel, he would not have him bless them on any account; if he could do him and his people no good in ridding them of their enemies, yet he desires him by no means to do them any harm by discouraging them and encouraging Israel.

p So Fagius, Vatablus; with which agree the Arabic version, and Noldius, p. 221. No. 1024.