Numbers 24:22

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.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Nevertheless Kayin shall be wasted, Until Ashshur shall carry you away captive.

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

Lexham English Bible
Nevertheless, the Kenite will be burned; how long will Asshur keep you captive?"

English Standard Version
Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive."

New Century Version
But you Kenites will be burned up; Assyria will keep you captive."

New English Translation
Nevertheless the Kenite will be consumed. How long will Asshur take you away captive?"

Amplified Bible
"Nevertheless the Kenites will be consumed. How long will Asshur (Assyria) keep you (Israel) captive?"

New American Standard Bible
"Nevertheless Kain will suffer devastation; How long will Asshur keep you captive?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shalbe spoyled vntill Asshur cary thee away captiue.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nevertheless Kain will be consumed;How long will Asshur keep you captive?"

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Kayin will be wasted while captive to Ashur."

Darby Translation
But the Kenite shall be consumed, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Easy-to-Read Version
But you Kenites will be destroyed, just as the Lord destroyed Cain. Assyria will make you prisoners."

George Lamsa Translation
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted until Assyria shall carry you away captive.

Good News Translation
But you Kenites will be destroyed When Assyria takes you captive."

Christian Standard Bible®
Kain will be destroyedwhen Asshur takes you captive.

Literal Translation
But the Kenites shall be consumed, until Assyria shall carry you away.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
neuertheles thou shalt be a burninge vnto Kain, tyll Assur take ye presoner.

American Standard Version
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Bible in Basic English
But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shalbe rooted out, vntyll Assur take thee prisoner.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

King James Version (1611)
Neuerthelesse, the Kenite shall be wasted, vntil Asshur shal carie thee away captiue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.

English Revised Version
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and schalt be chosun of the generacioun of Cyn, hou longe schalt thou mow dwelle? forsothe Assur schal take thee.

Young's Literal Translation
But the Kenite is for a burning; Till when doth Asshur keep thee captive?'

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asher shall carry thee away captive.

World English Bible
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away captive.

New King James Version
Nevertheless Kain shall be burned. How long until Asshur carries you away captive?"

New Living Translation
But the Kenites will be destroyed when Assyria takes you captive."

New Life Bible
But Kain will be destroyed. How long will Asshur keep you against your will?"

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet shall it be for destruction, O Kain, - How long shall Assyria hold thee captive?

Revised Standard Version
nevertheless Kain shall be wasted. How long shall Asshur take you away captive?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Nevertheless Kain will be consumed; How long will Asshur keep you captive?"

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Therefore taking up his parable, again he said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man whose eye is stopped up, hath said: ¹⁶ The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who falling hath his eyes opened: ¹⁷ I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth ¹⁸ And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully. ¹⁹ Out of Jacob shall he come that shall rule, and shall destroy the remains of the city. ²⁰ And when he saw Amalec, he took up his parable, and said: Amalec the beginning of nations, whose latter ends shall be destroyed. ²¹ He 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, ²² And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. ²³ And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things? 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Kenite: Heb. Kain, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. or, how long shall it be ere Asshur carry thee away captive? Genesis 10:11, Ezra 4:2, Psalms 83:8, Hosea 14:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:19 - Kenites Judges 1:16 - the Kenite 1 Samuel 15:6 - the Kenites 1 Chronicles 1:17 - Asshur Ezekiel 27:23 - Asshur

Cross-References

Genesis 24:2
And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:3
That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:

Genesis 24:9
The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.

Genesis 24:10
And he took ten camels of his master’s herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forward and went on to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor.

Genesis 24:11
And when he had made the camels lie down without the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are wont to come out to draw water, he said:

Genesis 24:12
O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kindness to my master, Abraham.

Genesis 24:15
He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

Genesis 24:16
An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back.

Genesis 24:19
And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

Genesis 24:23
And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father’s house to lodge?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted,.... Though they were so strongly fortified, and closely immured and surrounded with rocks and mountains, yet they should gradually waste away, as they were but few in Saul's time, 1 Samuel 15:6

until Ashur shall carry thee away captive; Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, when he carried captive the people of Syria, took these with them, 2 Kings 16:9, though Jarchi thinks they were carried captives with the ten tribes, that is, by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria; and the Targum of Jonathan, by Sennacherib, king of Assyria; and others think by Nebuchadnezzar, who was sometimes reckoned a king of Assyria; taking them to be the same with the Amalekites, who were carried captives and returned with the two tribes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Numbers 10:32; Jeremiah 35:19).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 24:22. Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. — The Assyrians and Babylonians who carried away captive the ten tribes, 2 Kings 17:6, and the Jews into Babylon, 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Kings 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, 1 Chronicles 2:55.