Numbers 24:21-25

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]
24 Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus; they will subdue Ashur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin.”
25 Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.

Cross References 8

  • 1. S Genesis 15:19
  • 2. Psalms 37:27; Proverbs 1:33; Isaiah 32:18; Ezekiel 34:27
  • 3. S Genesis 10:22
  • 4. S Genesis 10:4
  • 5. ver 22
  • 6. S Genesis 10:21
  • 7. ver 20
  • 8. S Numbers 22:5; Numbers 31:8

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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