Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand. New Living Translation but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak. English Standard Version but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand. Berean Standard Bible but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand. King James Bible But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. New King James Version But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand. New American Standard Bible But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I saved you from his hand. NASB 1995 ‘But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. NASB 1977 ‘But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. Legacy Standard Bible But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he blessed you repeatedly, and I delivered you from his hand. Amplified Bible But I would not listen to Balaam. Therefore he had to bless you, so I saved you from Balak’s hand. Christian Standard Bible but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I rescued you from him. Holman Christian Standard Bible but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I delivered you from his hand.” American Standard Version but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And I was not willing to listen to Belaam, and blessing I blessed you, and I saved you from his hands Brenton Septuagint Translation But the Lord thy God would not destroy thee; and he greatly blessed us, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them to us. Contemporary English Version But I wouldn't listen to Balaam, and I rescued you by making him bless you instead of curse you. Douay-Rheims Bible And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by him, and I delivered you out of his hand. English Revised Version but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. GOD'S WORD® Translation But I refused to listen to Balaam. All he could do was bless you. So I saved you from his power. Good News Translation But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you, and in this way I rescued you from Balak. International Standard Version But I wasn't willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his control. JPS Tanakh 1917 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he even blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand. Literal Standard Version and I have not been willing to listen to Balaam, and he greatly blesses you, and I deliver you out of his hand. Majority Standard Bible but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand. New American Bible but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his power. NET Bible I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power. New Revised Standard Version but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I rescued you out of his hand. New Heart English Bible but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. Webster's Bible Translation But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. World English Bible but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. Young's Literal Translation and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he doth greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Joshua Reviews Israel's History…9Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you, 10but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand. 11After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.… Cross References Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. Joshua 24:11 After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. Treasury of Scripture But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. Numbers 22:11,12,18-20,35 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out… Numbers 23:3-12,15-26 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place… Numbers 24:5-10 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! … Jump to Previous Balaam Bless Blessed Blessing Deliver Delivered Ear Expressly Hand Hearken Kept Safe WillingJump to Next Balaam Bless Blessed Blessing Deliver Delivered Ear Expressly Hand Hearken Kept Safe WillingJoshua 24 1. Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem2. A brief history of God's benefits from Terah 14. He renews the covenant between them and God 26. A stone the witness of the covenant 29. Joshua's age, death, and burial 32. Joseph's bones are buried 33. Eleazar dies Verse 10. - But I would not. The Hebrew shows that this is not simply the conditional form of the verb, but that it means I willed not. It was God's "determinate purpose" that Israel should not be accursed. Blessed yon still. Rather, perhaps, blessed you emphatically. And I delivered you out of his hand. Both here and in the narrative in Numbers 22-30, it is implied that Balaam's curse had power if he were permitted by God to pronounce it. Wicked as be was, he was regarded as a prophet of the Lord. There is not the slightest shadow of difference between the view of Balaam presented to us in this short paragraph and that in which he appears to us in the more expanded narrative of Moses. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew but I wouldאָבִ֖יתִי (’ā·ḇî·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 14: To breathe after, to be acquiescent not וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no listen לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ (liš·mō·a‘) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently to Balaam. לְבִלְעָ֑ם (lə·ḇil·‘ām) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1109: Balaam -- a prophet So he blessed you וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ (way·ḇā·reḵ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse again and again, בָּרוֹךְ֙ (bā·rō·wḵ) Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse and I delivered וָאַצִּ֥ל (wā·’aṣ·ṣil) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver you אֶתְכֶ֖ם (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case from his hand. מִיָּדֽוֹ׃ (mî·yā·ḏōw) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3027: A hand Links Joshua 24:10 NIVJoshua 24:10 NLT Joshua 24:10 ESV Joshua 24:10 NASB Joshua 24:10 KJV Joshua 24:10 BibleApps.com Joshua 24:10 Biblia Paralela Joshua 24:10 Chinese Bible Joshua 24:10 French Bible Joshua 24:10 Catholic Bible OT History: Joshua 24:10 But I would not listen to Balaam (Josh. 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