Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
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Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive.”
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Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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Passages linked to Numbers 24:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 10:11 Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
- Ezra 4:2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
- Psalms 83:8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot.
- Hosea 14:3 Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, thou Kain shalt.
Or, thou Kain shalt.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until…
Num 24:22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
Ver. 22. Until Ashur.] Who, together with the Jews, carried captive all the neighbouring nations. {Jer 25:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Kenite, Heb. Kain, i.e. the Kenite; so called, either…
Kenite, Heb. Kain, i.e. the Kenite; so called, either by a transposition of letters, which is very usual in the Hebrew tongue; or from the name of some eminent place where they lived, or person from whom they were descended, though now the memory of them be utterly lost, as it hath fared with innumerable other places and persons famous in their generations mentioned in ancient heathen writers.
Shall be wasted, i.e. shall be by degrees diminished and wasted by the incursions of divers enemies, till at last the Assyrian comes to complete the work, and carries them into captivity. For the Kenites lived partly among the ten tribes, Jos 19:33, compared with Jdg 4:11, and partly with the two tribes, Jdg 1:16; 4:16,17, and were carried captive with them, part by Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, 2Ki 17:6, and part by Nebuchadnezzar, who also is called an Assyrian, Ezr 6:22; Isa 52:4. The words may be rendered thus, shall be wasted. How long? to wit, shall they be thus wasted? (these particles being oft used abruptly and pathetically in the same manner, Psa 6:3; 90:13 Isa 6:11) till Asshur comes,
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Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he took up his parable, and said,.... Or…
And he took up his parable, and said,.... Or delivered another prophecy, having made some little pause:
alas, who shall live when God doeth this? referring not to what goes before, but to what follows; though Jarchi and Aben Ezra think it refers to the Assyria conquering and carrying captive, not only the Kenites, but all the nations of the world, so that there was no living comfortably in it on his account; but this is said after Balaam had taken up his parable again, and so respects what follows, as the destruction of the Persian empire by Alexander, in which Ashur or the Assyrians were included; and the destruction of the Jews by the Romans more especially; which was such as had not been the like from the beginning of the world, Mat 24:21, and perhaps may have a further respect to the affliction of the witnesses and church of Christ by antichrist; see Dan 12:1.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Kenite - Hebrew. Kain, that is, the Kenite,…
The Kenite - Hebrew. Kain, that is, the Kenite, so called, either by a transposition of letters, which is very usual in the Hebrew tongue; or from the name of some eminent place where they lived, or person from whom they were descended, though now the memory of them be utterly lost, as it hath fared with innumerable other places and persons, famous in their generations, mentioned in ancient Heathen writers. Shall be wasted - Shall be by degrees diminished by the incursions of divers enemies, till at last the Assyrian comes to compleat the work and carries them into captivity. For the Kenites who lived partly among the ten tribes, and partly with the two tribes, were carried captive with them, part by Salmaneser, the King of Assyria, and part by Nebuchadnezzar, who also is called an Assyrian, Ezra vi, 22 Isaiah lii, 4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.]…
Verse 22. Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.] The Assyrians and Babylonians who carried away captive the ten tribes, 2Kg 17:6, and the Jews into Babylon, 2Kg 25:1; 2Kg 25:11, 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, 1Ch 2:55.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Render, For Kain shall surely not be destroyed (literally…
Render, For Kain shall surely not be destroyed (literally “be for destruction”) until Asshur, etc. The words are not, as they appear in the King James Version, a prediction of evil to the Kenites, but a promise, on the contrary, of safety to be long continued to them (compare Num 10:32; Jer 35:19).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Captive. The Samaritan insinuates that they should return, 1…
Captive. The Samaritan insinuates that they should return, 1 Paralipomenon ii. 55. "Though thy nest should be entirely consumed, thy inhabitants shall return out of Assyria." (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "If to Beor (the capital) there should be nests of iniquity, the Assyrians will reduce thee to captivity." Hebrew, "Yet the Cinite should be wasted, till," &c. (Haydock) --- The family of Jethro was now among the Hebrews, and their posterity were suffered to dwell with the tribe of Juda. Abor afterwards removed into the tribe of Nephthali, and was led away by Salmanasar, 4 Kings xvii. (Menochius) --- Some of the Cinites were mixed with the Amalecites, 1 Kings xv. 6. The Assyrians infested the neighbouring nations, as well as the Hebrews, under Sennacherib and Nabuchodonosor, as the prophets inform us. (Calmet)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Nevertheless the Kenite — Hebrew, Kain. The sentence…
22. Nevertheless the Kenite — Hebrew, Kain. The sentence should be translated “for Kain shall not be exterminated until Asshur,” etc. It is here signified that they will dwell by Israel undisturbed till Asshur, the Assyrians, shall desolate the whole land, and lead Israel and their wards, the Kenites, into captivity. Not only original Assyria is here intended but Babylonia and Persia, which spread over the same territory. Ezr_6:22. Balaam did not foretell Israel’s captivity in Babylon, because this was a transitory, disciplinary judgment, and not an extinction of nationality, as in the case of the Kenites.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. Until Asshur &c.] The Heb. can only be…
22. Until Asshur &c.] The Heb. can only be translated as in R.V. marg., ‘How long? Asshur shall &c.’ The words for ‘how long’ (‘ad mâh) may be a corruption of the name of some place in the east; ‘unto—shall Asshur carry thee captive.’ Asshur or Ashur is the true form of the name Assyria; cf. Num_24:24; Gen_10:22; Hos_14:3; Isa_10:5 (R.V. marg.).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted. yiq rebl hyhyiA…
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted. yiq rebl hyhyiA yKi. Rather, "Kain shall surely not be wasted." is of doubtful meaning, but it seems here to have the force of a negative question equivalent to a negation. Kain is mentioned in Jos_15:57 as one of the towns of Judah, but there is little reason to suppose that an insignificant village is here mentioned by name. Probably "Kain" stands for the tribe-father, and is simply the poetical equivalent of Kenite. Until hmAd. There is some uncertainty about these two particles, which are sometimes rendered "how long?" In the sense of "until" they are said to be an Aramaism, but this is doubtful.
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