We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,

until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the LORD our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.'

When Abram came back from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in Shaveh Valley (also called King's Valley).

And Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and also a priest of the Most High God, brought bread and wine to Abram,

I'm not going to take my bread and water, and the animals I have butchered for my sheepshearers, and give them to people who come from I don't know where!"

and when Jezebel was killing the LORD's prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them, hid them in caves in two groups of fifty, and provided them with food and water.)

from all their suffering. It was not an angel, but the LORD himself who saved them. In his love and compassion he rescued them. He had always taken care of them in the past,

Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me." So the LORD Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people:

The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these followers of mine, you did it for me!'

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

sent messengers to summon Balaam son of Beor, who was at Pethor near the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw. They brought him this message from Balak: "I want you to know that a whole nation has come from Egypt; its people are spreading out everywhere and threatening to take over our land.

So the Moabite and Midianite leaders took with them the payment for the curse, went to Balaam, and gave him Balak's message.

I will reward you richly and do anything you say. Please come and curse these people for me."

This was because the people of Ammon and Moab did not give food and water to the Israelites on their way out of Egypt. Instead, they paid money to Balaam to curse Israel, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.