Numbers 24:20

Overview - Numbers 24
Balaam, leaving divinations, prophesies the happiness of Israel.
10 Balak, in anger, dismisses him.
15 He prophesies of the Star of Jacob, and the destruction of some nations.
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Numbers 24:20  (King James Version)
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
 


the first of the nations or, the first of the nations that
warred against Israel.
Exodus 17:8 Exodus 17:16

his latter end
Judges 6:3 ; 1 Samuel 14:48 ; 15:3-8 1 Samuel 27:8 1 Samuel 27:9 1 Samuel 30:1 1 Samuel 30:17 1 Chronicles 4:43 ; Esther 3:1
Esther 7:9 Esther 7:10 ; 9:14

shall be that he perish for ever or, shall be even to
destruction.
Exodus 17:14 ; 1 Samuel 15:3 1 Samuel 15:8