Numbers 24:22

World English Bible

Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away 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.

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?

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.

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 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, The man whose eye was closed says; ¹⁶ He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open: ¹⁷ I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult. ¹⁸ Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel does valiantly. ¹⁹ Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, Shall destroy the remnant from the city. ²⁰ He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction. ²¹ He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, Your nest is set in the rock. ²² Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away captive. ²³ He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this? ²⁴ But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; He also shall come to destruction.

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
Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24:3
I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:12
He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:15
It happened, before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

Genesis 24:19
When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."

Genesis 24:23
and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"

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.