"Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone," Balaam said to Balak. "Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you." So Balaam went off to a barren height,
Cross References
Matthew 4:8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Numbers 23:2So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:4and God met with him. "I have set up seven altars," Balaam said, "and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."
Treasury of Scripture
And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an high place.
Stand
Numbers 23:15
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
burnt
Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 22:2,7,8,13
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of…
Exodus 18:12
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.
peradventure
Numbers 23:15
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
Numbers 22:8,9,31-35
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam…
Numbers 24:1
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
went to an high place.
