Numbers 22:17
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for I will honor you richly and do whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people for me!’”
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Therefore, flee at once to your home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has denied your reward.”
so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.
You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
And he said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to richly reward you?”
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?