◄ Numbers 24:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Then in his vision Balaam saw the Amalekites and uttered this prophecy: "Amalek was the most powerful nation of all, But at the end it will perish forever."

New Revised Standard Version
Then he looked on Amalek, and uttered his oracle, saying: “First among the nations was Amalek, but its end is to perish forever.”

Contemporary English Version
"And I saw this vision about the Amalekites: Their nation is now great, but it will someday disappear forever.

New American Bible
Upon seeing Amalek, Balaam recited his poem: First of the nations is Amalek, but their end is to perish forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

the Kenites

Genesis 15:19 The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

Judges 1:16 And the children of the Cinite, the kinsman of Moses, went up from the city of palms, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness of his lot, which is at the south side of Arad, and they dwelt with him.

Job 29:18 And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
20And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.21He saw also the Cinite: and took up his parable, and said: Thy habitation indeed is strong: but though thou build thy nest in a rock,…
Cross References
Genesis 36:12
And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau: and she bore him Amalech. These are the sons of Ada, the wife of Esau.

Exodus 17:8
And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.

Numbers 24:7
Water shall flow out of his bucket, and his seed shall be in many waters. For Agag his king shall be removed, and his kingdom shall be taken away.

Numbers 24:19
Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city.

Numbers 24:24
They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

1 Samuel 15:2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:3
Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Numbers 24:19
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