Numbers 22:35
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35 The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went on with the officials of Balak.(A)
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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9 The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,(A) 10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(C) 12 so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.(D)
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Isaiah 37:26-29
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26 “Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,(A)
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
that is scorched before the east wind.[a](B)
28 “I know your rising up[b] and your sitting down,
your going out and coming in
and your raging against me.(C)
29 Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.(D)
Psalm 81:12
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12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(A)
Numbers 22:20-21
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20 That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but do only what I tell you to do.”(A) 21 So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the officials of Moab.(B)
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