100 Bible Verses About Decision Making
Bible verses about Decision Making
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do?
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.
And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)
When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are these with thee?
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: