Study Desk

He hears the words of God. He sees what the All-powerful wants him to see. He falls down, but has his eyes open.

God brings him out of Egypt. He is for him like the horns of the wild bull. He will destroy the nations who fight against him. He will crush their bones in pieces and cut through them with his arrows.

He hears the words of God. He knows what the Most High wants him to know. He sees what the All-powerful wants him to see. He falls down, but has his eyes open.

Then Balaam said, "Who can live when God does this?

It will be an agreement for him and his children after him that they will always be religious leaders, because he was jealous for his God, and did what he was to do to pay for the sin of the people of Israel."

"May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, choose a man to lead the people.

"The Lord our God spoke to us at Mount Sinai, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

The Lord your God has made you become many people. Now you are as many as the stars of heaven.

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you 1,000 times as many as you are. May He bring good to you just as He has promised you!

Do not show favor as you judge. Listen to the small and the great alike. Do not be afraid of any man, because you are judging for God. Bring to me any problem that is too hard for you, and I will hear it.'

"Then we left Mount Sinai. We went through the big desert you saw which fills people with fear, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had told us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.

I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God will give us.

See, the Lord your God has set the land in front of you. Go and take it for your own, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or troubled.'

They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. And they told us that it is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.

"Yet you would not go up. You went against what the Lord your God told you to do.

The Lord your God Who goes before you will Himself fight for you. He did this for you in Egypt in front of your eyes,

and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way you have walked until you came to this place.'

But even so, you did not trust the Lord your God,

"Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God told us.' So every man of you put on his sword and thought it an easy thing to go up into the hill country.

For the Lord your God has brought good to you in all you have done. He knows about your traveling through this big desert. The Lord your God has been with you these forty years. You have not been without a thing."'