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Numbers 24:21
Numbers 24:21 is verse 21 of Numbers chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, “Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.
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Numbers 24:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 A ruler will come from Jacob and destroy the survivors of the city.”
20 Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
21 Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
22 Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
23 Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 15:19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Judges 1:16Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.