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Numbers 24:22
Numbers 24:22 is verse 22 of Numbers chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
Or Assyria; also in verse 24
King James Version
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
World English Bible
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
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Numbers 24:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
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?
24 Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Ezra 4:2they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Psalms 83:8Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
Hosea 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”