Numbers 24 · Verse 22

Numbers 24:22

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
Numbers 24:22, King James Version

Numbers 24:22 in other translations

BSBYet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
WEBNevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
ASVNevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
YLTBut the Kenite is for a burning; Till when doth Asshur keep thee captive?'
DARBYBut the Kenite shall be consumed, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
BBEBut still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.
WebsterNevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asher shall carry thee away captive.

What does Numbers 24:22 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive - The Assyrians and Babylonians who carried away captive the ten tribes, 2Kgs 17:6, and the Jews into Babylon, 2 Kings 25, probably carried away the Kenites also. Indeed this seems pretty evident, as we find some Kenites mentioned among the Jews after their return from the Babylonish captivity, 1Chr 2:55.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 24:15-25

Under the powerful influence of the Spirit of prophecy, Balaam foretold the future prosperity and extensive dominion of Israel. Balaam boasts that his eyes are open. The prophets were in old times called seers. He had heard the words of God, which many do who neither heed them, nor hear God in them. He knew the knowledge of the Most High. A man may be full of the knowledge of God, yet utterly destitute of the grace…

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Numbers 24:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֥יkithatH3588
אִם\־'im-exceptH518
יִהְיֶ֖הyih.Yehit will becomeH1961
לְבָ֣עֵֽרle.Va.'er<into> consumingH1197
קָ֑יִןKa.yin[the] Kenite[s]H7014
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
מָ֖הmahwhen?H4100
אַשּׁ֥וּר'a.ShurAsshurH804
תִּשְׁבֶּֽךָּ\׃tish.Be.kawill it take captive youH7617

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Cross references for Numbers 24:22

  • Psalms 83:8

    Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

  • Genesis 10:11

    Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • Genesis 10:22

    The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

  • Ezra 4:2

    Then 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 Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

  • Hosea 14:3

    Asshur 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the Kenite. Heb. Kain. until Asshur shall carry thee awaycaptive. or, how long shall it be ere Asshur carry thee away captive?
Ge 10:11; Ezr 4:2; Ps 83:8; Ho 14:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Numbers 24:21

    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.

  • Numbers 24:22

    Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

  • Numbers 24:23

    And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

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Numbers 24:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Que el Cineo será echado, cuando Assur te llevará cautivo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Toutefois le Kénien doit être consumé, jusqu’à ce qu’Assur t’emmène captif.
German
Elberfelder 1871		doch der Keniter soll vertilgt werden, bis Assur dich gefangen wegführt. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et fueris electus de stirpe Cin, quamdiu poteris permanere? Assur enim capiet te.