Numbers 24:22
Good News Translation
But you Kenites will be destroyed When Assyria takes you captive."

New Revised Standard Version
yet Kain is destined for burning. How long shall Asshur take you away captive?”

Contemporary English Version
but they will be wiped out when Assyria conquers them.

New American Bible
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.

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Numbers 23:23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

2 Kings 5:1 Naaman, general of the army, of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable: for by him the Lord gave deliverance to Syria: and he was a valiant man, and rich, but a leper.

Malachi 3:2 And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb:

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
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, 22And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.23And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?…
Cross References
Genesis 10:21
Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

Genesis 10:22
The sons of Sem: Elam and Assur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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

Numbers 24:23
And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

Numbers 24:21
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