Numbers 24:24
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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.

Numbers 24:11 Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.

Numbers 31:8 And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Joshua 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
23And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things? 24They 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.25And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:4
And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

Genesis 10:21
Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.

Numbers 24:20
And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed.

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

Ezekiel 27:6
They have cut thy oars out of the oaks of Basan: and they have made thee benches of Indian ivory and cabins with things brought from the islands of Italy.

Daniel 11:30
And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.

Lexicon
Ships
וְצִים֙ (wə·ṣîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6716: A ship

[will come] from the coast
מִיַּ֣ד (mî·yaḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

of Kittim;
כִּתִּ֔ים (kit·tîm)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3794: Kittim -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land

they will subdue
וְעִנּ֥וּ (wə·‘in·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted

Asshur
אַשּׁ֖וּר (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 804: Ashshur

and Eber,
עֵ֑בֶר (‘ê·ḇer)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5677: Eber -- 'region beyond', a descendant of Shem, also the name of several Israelites

but they
ה֖וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

too
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

will perish
אֹבֵֽד׃ (’ō·ḇêḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8: Wretched, destruction

forever.”
עֲדֵ֥י (‘ă·ḏê)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity


Additional Translations
Ships will come from the coast of Kittim; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

But ships'shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.

And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together.

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and afflict Asshur, and afflict Eber, and he also shall be for destruction.

But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, And he also shall come to destruction.

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Ashur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction."

And -- ships are from the side of Chittim, And they have humbled Asshur, And they have humbled Eber, And it also for ever is perishing.'
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