Num 23:1, 14, 30, 1Ki 21:9, 12, Psa 50:16-21, Pro 21:27, Isa 1:10-16 | ESV | STEP | And Balaam said to Balak , Build for me here seven altars , and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams .

z[See ver. 13 above]

aa 1 Kgs. 8:22

ab Prov. 1:28; Mic. 3:4

ac ch. 59:3

ad[Jer. 2:22]

ae[1 Pet. 3:11]

Numbers 23:1

Balaam’s First Oracle

1 And Balaam said to Balak, ^a“Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

Numbers 23:14

14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, ^band built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:30

30 ^cAnd Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

1 Kings 21:9

9 And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.

1 Kings 21:12

12 ^dthey proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.

Psalms 50:16-21

16 But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 ^eFor you hate discipline,
^fand you cast my words behind you.
18 If you see a thief, ^gyou are pleased with him,
^hand you keep company with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,
ⁱand your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I ^jhave been silent;
you thought that I ^{▼▼Or that the I am} was one like yourself.
But now I ^lrebuke you and ^mlay the charge before you.

Proverbs 21:27

27 ⁿThe sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
how much more ^owhen he brings it with evil intent.

Isaiah 1:10-16

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of ^p, ^qSodom!
Give ear to the teaching ^{▼▼Or law} of our God,
you people of ^sGomorrah!
11 ^t“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to ^uappear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
^vNew moon and Sabbath and the ^wcalling of convocations—
I cannot endure ^xiniquity and ^ysolemn assembly.
14 Your ^znew moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you ^aaspread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
^abeven though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
^acyour hands are full of blood.
16 ^adWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
^aecease to do evil,