Bilangan 23:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bagaimanakah aku menyerapah yang tidak diserapah Allah? Bagaimanakah aku mengutuk yang tidak dikutuk TUHAN?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bagaimanakah aku menyerapah yang tidak diserapah Allah? Bagaimanakah aku mengutuk yang tidak dikutuk TUHAN?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka bagaimanakah aku mengutuki orang yang tiada dikutuki Allah? dan bagaimanakah aku menyerahkan kepada kebinasaan orang yang tiada diserahkan oleh Tuhan kepada kebinasaan?

Contextual Overview

¹ And Balaam said vnto Balac: Buylde me here seuen aulters, & prepare me here seuen oxen & seuen rammes. ² And Balac dyd as Balaam sayde: And Balac and Balaam offred on euery aulter an oxe and a ramme. ³ And Balaam said vnto Balac: Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go, if happly the Lorde will meete me: and whatsoeuer he sheweth me, I wyll tell thee. And he went vp hyer. ⁴ But God met Balaam, & [Balaam] sayd vnto hym: I haue prepared seuen aulters, and haue offred vpon euery aulter an oxe and a ramme. ⁵ And the Lorde put a saying in Balaams mouth, and sayde: Go agayne to Balac, and say on this wyse. ⁶ And when he went agayne vnto him, lo, he stoode by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the lordes of Moab. ⁷ And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, [saying] Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel. ⁸ Howe shall I curse hym, whom God hath not cursed? or howe shall I defie hym, whom God hath not defied? ⁹ For from the toppe of the rockes I see hym, and from the hylles I beholde hym: lo, the people shall dwell by them selues, and shal not be reckened among the nations. ¹⁰ Who can tell the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? I pray God that my soule may dye the death of the righteous, and that my last ende may be like his.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 23:20, Numbers 23:23, Isaiah 44:25, Isaiah 47:12, Isaiah 47:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:29 - cursed Genesis 31:55 - blessed Numbers 22:6 - curse me Numbers 23:11 - General Deuteronomy 32:31 - General 1 Samuel 17:10 - I defy 2 Samuel 23:9 - defied Nehemiah 13:2 - our God Proverbs 26:2 - so Isaiah 49:25 - I will contend

Cross-References

Genesis 23:1
Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)

Genesis 23:2
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.

Genesis 23:3
And Abraham stoode vp fro the sight of his corse, and talked with the sonnes of Heth, saying:

Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.

Genesis 25:9
And his sonnes Isahac and Ismael buryed hym in the double caue in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Soar the Hethite, before Mamre.

1 Kings 2:17
And he said: Speake I pray thee, vnto Solomo the king (for he wil not say thee nay) that he geue me Abisag the Sunamite to wyfe.

Hebrews 7:26
For such an hye priest became vs, whiche [is] holy, harmelesse, vndefyled, seperate from sinners, and made hygher then heauens:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed?.... The sense is, that it was impossible for him to curse those that God did not curse himself, or would not have cursed by others; not but that he had a good will to it, to get Balak's money and honour, but he knew not how to accomplish it; yea, he saw it was in vain to attempt it, it was a thing that could not possibly be done: God does not, nor will he curse his spiritual Israel; they are blessed by him in Christ, and they shall be blessed; nor is it in the power of their enemies to curse them, or do them any harm: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem, instead of God and the Lord in this and the following clause, use the phase,

"the Word of the Lord;''

the essential Word, the Son of God, who is so far from cursing his people, that he has delivered them from the curses of the law, being made a curse for them, that the blessings of the everlasting covenant of grace might come upon them; and they are blessed of God in him, and for his sake, with all spiritual blessings:

or how shall I defy whom the Lord hath not defied? which is the same thing in other words, only this last word is expressive of more contempt and indignation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:8. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? — It was granted on all hands that no incantations nor imprecations could avail, unless God concurred and ratified them. From God's communication to Balaam he saw that God was determined to bless and defend Israel, and therefore all endeavours to injure them must be in vain.