Numbers 24:22

22 Kayin will be wasted while captive to Ashur."

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.

Numbers 24:22 In-Context

20 He saw 'Amalek and made this pronouncement: "First among nations was 'Amalek, but destruction will be its end."

21 He saw the Keini and made this pronouncement: "Though your dwelling is firm, your nest set on rock,

22 Kayin will be wasted while captive to Ashur."

23 Finally, he made this pronouncement: "Oh no! Who can live when God does this?

24 But ships will come from the coast of Kittim to subdue Ashur and subdue 'Ever, but they too will come to destruction."