Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because {thy} way is perverse before me: {to...: Heb. to be an adversary unto thee}
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. {displease...: Heb. be evil in thine eyes}
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, {and} as cedar trees beside the waters.
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. {the Kenite: Heb. Kain} {until...: or, how long shall it be ere Asshur carry thee away captive}
And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. {for...: Heb. with my zeal}
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us {therefore} a possession among the brethren of our father. {done...: Heb. diminished}
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard {them}; then he shall bear her iniquity.
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. {whereunto...: Heb. unto whom they shall be}
({There are} eleven days' {journey} from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)