About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible:

About the Author of the Blogsite, Not the Author of the Bible: I was uncertain of how to accomplish this, mindful of Revelation 22:18-19, which says that nobody is to add to, or to take away from what was written in the Bible. After lots of prayerful contemplation, the Lord had it on my heart that I’m not to change the meaning of what is written in the Bible. He has also shown ways to add to people’s understating of that meaning, without altering the meaning, by putting that info within [brackets]. This is primarily accomplished with the KJV Bible and lots of prayers, but at times, BibleGateway.com, Biblehub.com, NIV Bible, Webster Dictionary, and other internet resources, as needed. Debra Seiling

About Understanding the Bible:

Understanding the Bible: After reading Isaiah 28:10 many times over the years and not totally understanding it, it recently became apparent to me that the Lord God has this passage as the means for understanding the Bible. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10 KJV. Being prayerful about this passage, and looking up 'precept' in the Webster's Dictionary, it gave this passage a whole new meaning, once 'commandment' is substituted for 'precept'. Within brackets are additional words the Lord had on my heart to aid in understanding the meaning. For commandment must be [built up] upon commandment; commandment upon commandment; line upon line, line upon line; [developing understanding] here a little, and there a little.

The Table Format:

The Table Format: I was overwhelmed with how to explain the process for determining if someone had leprosy in Leviticus 13, which seemed very complicated. After praying, "Lord, if this is difficult for me to understand after reading it many times, how can this be explained to others?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was for me to put it into a vertical chart to visually see the process. This made it much easier for me to follow the progression. After doing so, I prayed, "Lord, how can this be conveyed to readers, so that they can understand this process?" The thought the Lord God had on my heart was to put it within the lines of a table. Being a stiff-necked, stubborn person, as it's often called in the Bible, I prayed, asking the Lord God if He's sure that's really what He wanted me to do? I reluctantly put Leviticus 13 into a table format. When I read this difficult leprosy process within a table format, it suddenly became easier for me to understand. That's because it builds line upon line, as explained in the Understanding the Bible section. Shortly after that, the Lord God had it on my heart, to put all of The Books of the Bible in Smaller Chunks within a table format, to aid in understanding, line upon line.

Numbers 23:1-30 Balak Wants Balaam to Curse the Israelites

 

Balak Wants Balaam to Curse the Israelites

Numbers 23:1-30                     The Fourth Book of Moses Called Numbers

Balaam said to Balak, [Moab’s king,] Build me 7 altars here & prepare me 7 oxen & 7 rams. Balak did as Balaam [asked.] Balak & Balaam offered an ox & a ram on [each] altar. Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering & I will go. [Perhaps] the Lord will come to meet me. I will tell you [whatever] He [shows] me. 

Balaam went to a high place. And [the Lord] God met Balaam & [Balaam] said to [God,] I have prepared 7 altars & offered a bull & a ram on every altar. The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth & said, Return to Balak & [say this to him.] 

[Balaam] returned to [Balak] & he & all [Moab’s] princes stood by his burnt sacrifice. Balaam [started telling] him & said, Balak, [Moab’s] king, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come curse Jacob [for] me & come defy Israel. 

How shall I curse, whom God hasn’t cursed? Or how shall I defy, whom God has not defied? I have seen [Israel] from the top of the rocks & from the hills. I saw [them] & the people [Israelites] shall [live] alone & shall not be [considered as] among the nations. 

Who can count the dust of Jacob [a.k.a. Israel] & count 1/4 of Israel [a.k.a. Jacob]? Let me die the death of the righteous & let my [life] end like [theirs!] Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I [got] you to curse [my enemy,] but [look,] you have blessed [all of them.] 

Balaam answered & said, [Shouldn’t I be careful to listen & to only] speak [what] the Lord [God] has put [into] my mouth? Balak said to him, I pray [that] you come with me to another place [where] you may see them, but  you shall see [the outer portion] of them &  shall not see them all & curse them [for] me from [there.]

[Balak] brought [Balaam] into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah & built 7 altars there & offered a bull & a ram on every altar. [Balaam] said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I [go] meet the Lord [over there.] The Lord met Balaam & put a word in his mouth & said, Go again to Balak & say [this.] 

When [Balaam] came to [Balak,] he & [Moab’s] princes stood by his burnt offering with him. Balak said to him, What has the Lord [said?] Balaam [started telling him] & said, Rise up, Balak & hear.   

[Listen] to me, you son of Zippor. God is not a man, that He [would] lie & neither [is He] the son of a man, that He would [change His mind.] [Hasn’t God spoken] & [won’t] not do it? He [has said] & shall He not make it good? [1 Kings 8:56 Blessed [is] the Lord, [Who] has given rest to His people, Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses, His servant.]

[Look,] I have received [a command] to bless & [God] has blessed & I can’t reverse it. [God hasn’t seen] iniquity in Jacob or [evil] in Israel. The Lord, his God, is with [them] & the shout of a King is among them. God brought them out of Egypt. [They] have the strength of a [wild ox.] 

Surely, there is no enchantment [cursed] against Jacob & neither is there any divination against Israel, [up until] this time, it shall be said of Jacob & Israel, What God has [carried out!] 

[Look,] the people [of the Israelites] shall rise up [like] a great lion & lift up [themself like] a young lion. He shall not lie down until he [eats] of the prey & [drinks] the blood of the [killed]. Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

But Balaam answered & said to Balak, [Didn’t] I tell you, saying, All the Lord [says,] that I must do? Balak said to Balaam, I pray [that] you come to another place that I will bring you. [Perhaps] it will please [the Lord] God, [so] you may curse them [for] me from [there.] 

Balak brought Balaam to the top of [Mount] Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon. Balaam said to Balak, Build me 7 altars here & prepare me 7 bulls & 7 rams. Balak did as Balaam said & offered a bull & a ram on every altar.