KJV King James Version
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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Numbers 24:22
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
WEB World English Bible
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
ASV American Standard Version
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
But the Kenite is for a burning; Till when doth Asshur keep thee captive?’
Surrounding context — Numbers 24
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
20 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.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
24 And ships [shall come] from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
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Ezra 4:2Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye [do]; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.Genesis 10:22The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.Psalm 83:8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.Genesis 10:11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,Hosea 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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