Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Numbers 24:22

Share

Settings

22 "Nevertheless * Kain will be consumed; How long will 1Asshur keep you captive?"
Read Chapter Compare
PREVIOUS Numbers 24:21 NEXT Numbers 24:23

Numbers 24:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 24:22

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted
Though they were so strongly fortified, and closely immured and surrounded with rocks and mountains, yet they should gradually waste away, as they were but few in Saul's time, ( 1 Samuel 15:6 )

until Ashur shall carry thee away captive;
Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, when he carried captive the people of Syria, took these with them, ( 2 Kings 16:9 ) , though Jarchi thinks they were carried captives with the ten tribes, that is, by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria; and the Targum of Jonathan, by Sennacherib, king of Assyria; and others think by Nebuchadnezzar, who was sometimes reckoned a king of Assyria; taking them to be the same with the Amalekites, who were carried captives and returned with the two tribes.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 24:22 In-Context

20 And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his end shall be destruction."
21 And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Your dwelling place is enduring, And your nest is set in the cliff.
22 "Nevertheless Kain will be consumed; How long will Asshur keep you captive?"
23 Then he took up his discourse and said, "Alas, who can live except God has ordained it?
24 "But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; So they also will come to destruction."

Cross References 1

  • 1. Genesis 10:21, 22

Footnotes 1

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.