Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Numbers 22:17 Cross-References
Explore 11 cross-references for Numbers 22:17 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Numbers chapter 22 verse 17 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.”
Numbers 22:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Numbers 22:17
I will promote thee unto very great honour (כַּבֵּד אְכַבֶּדְךָ, kabbēd 'akabbedkā)—The intensive Hebrew construction (infinitive absolute + verb) emphasizes extreme honor: "I will greatly, greatly honor you." Balak offered wealth, status, and blank-check authority: I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me. This is comprehensive temptation—financial security, social prestige, political power.Yet the price was curse me this people (קָבָה, qābâ)—invoking supernatural harm on Yahweh's chosen nation. Balak's offer epitomizes Satan's strategy: kingdoms of the world in exchange for betraying God's p...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Numbers 22:17
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“behold”
“Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? why didn't you come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
“that we may strike them”
“the multitude of his children”
“Build me here seven altars”
“Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.”
“And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.”
“the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain”
“if he gains the whole world”
“Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.”