Numbers 24:21-23

Balaam’s Sixth Message

21 Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;
22 yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Ashur takes you captive.”

Balaam’s Seventh Message

23 Then he spoke his message: “Alas! Who can live when God does this?[a]

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Genesis 15:19
  • 2. Psalms 37:27; Proverbs 1:33; Isaiah 32:18; Ezekiel 34:27
  • 3. S Genesis 10:22

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew "The people from the islands will gather from the north" .
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