Who enjoyed God's favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
NIV
Who found grace (favor and spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and prayed that he might be allowed to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. [II Sam. 7:8-16; Ps. 132:1-5.]AMP
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
KJV
Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. "Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted."
NIV
[Israel] shall pour water out of his own buckets [have his own sources of rich blessing and plenty], and his offspring shall dwell by many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
AMP
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
KJV
I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
NIV
And I will break and humble your pride in your power, and I will make your heavens as iron [yielding no answer, no blessing, no rain] and your earth [as sterile] as brass. [I Kings 17:1.]AMP
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
KJV
After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
NIV
And God [in a distinctly visible manifestation] appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Padan-aram, and declared a blessing on him. [Gen. 32:28.]AMP
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
KJV
However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
NIV
Nevertheless, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the Lord your God loves you.
AMP
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
KJV
Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
NIV
Then Jacob asked Him, Tell me, I pray You, what [in contrast] is Your name? But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And [the Angel of God declared] a blessing on [Jacob] there.
AMP
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
KJV
His father Isaac answered him, "Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above."
NIV
Then Isaac his father answered, Your [blessing and] dwelling shall all come from the fruitfulness of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above
AMP
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
KJV