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Biblical People: Balaam

Balaam son of Beor practices divination. His work must be of some renown, for when Balak seeks a supernatural edge over the approaching Hebrew people, he sends for Balaam to proclaim curses against the Israelites. God tells Balaam not to go and he doesn’t. We affirm him for doing what God said. But Balak persists […]

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Biblical People: Balak

Because of the people’s lack of faith, God turns them away from the promised land. They spend forty years in the desert, one year for each day the spies were on their mission. Four decades later, they finally prepare to conquer the nations before them under the leadership of Moses and then Joshua. Balak son […]