TSK · Deuteronomy 23:5

And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying,“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.

Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’”

The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

“‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.

“I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say,“How have you shown love to us?”“Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains,“yet I chose Jacob

just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison