Nehemiah 13:2
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Because
- Matthew 25:40
- hired Balaam
- Numbers 22:3–6; Joshua 24:9, 10
- our God
- Numbers 23:8–11, 18; Numbers 24:5–10; Deuteronomy 23:5; Psalm 109:28; Micah 6:5